Polystira

Polystira is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Polystira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Conoidea
Family:
Turridae
Subfamily:
Turrinae
Genus:
Polystira

Woodring, 1928
Type species
Pleurotoma albida Perry G., 1811
Synonyms

Oxytropa Glibert, 1955

Paul Bartsch (1934) states the genus Polystira was created by W. P. Woodring in 1928 for certain large West Indian turrids. He named the largest of the recent species, generally known as Pleurotoma albida Perry, as type. Unfortunately, the mollusk so designated is not Pleurotoma albida Perry, which Perry states " is frequently found at New Zealand and Lord Howe Island." Perry's figure 4, plate 32, of this species does not agree with the West Indian material. It clearly resembles certain shells from North Australia in the collection of the National Museum. The name is, therefore, not applicable to the West Indian shell, which will have to carry the next available designation. Lamarck in 1816, in his " Tableau Encyclopedique et Methodique ", figured on plate 439, as figure 2, the West Indian shell without naming it. Wood, in 1818, in his " Index Testaceologicus ", on page 125, names this species Murex virgo, referring to Lamarck's figure cited above. This appears to be the oldest available name for the type species. The type of Polystira Woodring must therefore be Murex virgo Wood = Polystira albida Woodring, not Perry.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Polystira include:

Species brought into synonymy
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References
  1. Polystira Woodring, 1928. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  2. Bartsch, P. (1934) Reports on the collections obtained by the first Johnson-Smithsonian deep-sea expedition to the Puerto Rican deep; new mollusks of the family Turritidae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 91, 1–29, 8 pls
  3. Polystira albida (G. Perry, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  4. Polystira bayeri Petuch, 2001. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  5. Polystira coltrorum Petuch, 1993. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  6. Polystira florencae Bartsch, 1934. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  7. Polystira formosissima (Smith E. A., 1915). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  8. Polystira gruneri (Philippi, 1848). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  9. Polystira lindae Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  10. Polystira macra Bartsch, 1934. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  11. Polystira nobilis (Hinds, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  12. Polystira oxytropis (Sowerby I, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  13. Polystira picta (Reeve, 1843). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  14. Polystira starretti Petuch, 2002. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  15. Polystira sunderlandi Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  16. Polystira tellea (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  17. Polystira vibex (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  18. Polystira hilli Petuch, 1988. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.
  19. Polystira phillipsi Nowell-Usticke, 1969. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 April 2010.


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