Polystira antillarum
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| Polystira antillarum | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Polystira antillarum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Polystira |
| Species: | P. antillarum |
| Binomial name | |
| Polystira antillarum (Crosse, 1865) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Pleurotoma antillarum Crosse, 1865 (non d'Orbigny, 1848) | |
Polystira antillarum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]
(Description of Pleurotoma virgo) The shell is ridged and striated, the central ridge forming a carina. The shell is usually glossy white, but when covered by its epidermis corneous.[2]
