WoRMS taxon details
Polystira Woodring, 1928
391298 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391298)
accepted
Genus
Pleurotoma albida G. Perry, 1811 accepted as Polystira albida (G. Perry, 1811) (type by original designation)
Turris (Oxytropa) Glibert, 1955 · unaccepted
- Species Polystira albida (G. Perry, 1811)
- Species Polystira artia (S. S. Berry, 1957)
- Species Polystira bayeri Petuch, 2001
- Species Polystira coltrorum Petuch, 1993
- Species Polystira cubacaribbaea Espinosa, Ortea & Moro, 2017
- Species Polystira eloinae Espinosa, Ortea & Moro, 2017
- Species Polystira florencae Bartsch, 1934
- Species Polystira formosissima (E. A. Smith, 1915)
- Species Polystira gruneri (R. A. Philippi, 1848)
- Species Polystira jaguaella Espinosa, Ortea & Moro, 2017
- Species Polystira jelskii (Crosse, 1865)
- Species Polystira jiguaniensis Espinosa, Ortea & Moro, 2017
- Species Polystira juangrinensis Espinosa, Ortea & Moro, 2017
- Species Polystira lindae Petuch, 1987
- Species Polystira macra Bartsch, 1934
- Species Polystira nobilis (Hinds, 1843)
- Species Polystira oxytropis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
- Species Polystira parthenia (S. S. Berry, 1957)
- Species Polystira parvula Espinosa, Ortea & Moro, 2017
- Species Polystira picta (Reeve, 1843)
- Species Polystira starretti Petuch, 2002
- Species Polystira sunderlandi Petuch, 1987
- Species Polystira tellea (Dall, 1889)
- Species Polystira tupan Simone & Tarasconi, 2022
- Species Polystira vibex (Dall, 1889)
- Species Polystira antillarum (Crosse, 1865) accepted as Polystira vibex (Dall, 1889)
- Species Polystira hilli Petuch, 1988 accepted as Polystira jelskii (Crosse, 1865)
- Species Polystira phillipsi Nowell-Usticke, 1969 accepted as Polystira gruneri (R. A. Philippi, 1848) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine
Woodring, W. P. (1928). Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> 385: vii + 564 pp., 40 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59220479
page(s): 145 [details]
page(s): 145 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Polystira Woodring, 1928. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391298 on 2025-03-31
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Nomenclature
original description
Woodring, W. P. (1928). Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results. <em>Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication.</em> 385: vii + 564 pp., 40 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59220479
page(s): 145 [details]
original description (of Turris (Oxytropa) Glibert, 1955) Glibert, M. (1955) Quelques espèces nouvelles ou mal connues de l'Oligocene moyen et supérieur de la Belgique. Bulletin Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Mémoire, 31(86), 1–7.
page(s): 5 [details]
basis of record Todd J.A. & Rawlings T.A. (2014). A review of the <i>Polystira</i> clade — the Neotropic's largest marine gastropod radiation (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae <i>sensu stricto</i>). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3884(5): 445-491., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3884.5.5 [details]
page(s): 145 [details]
original description (of Turris (Oxytropa) Glibert, 1955) Glibert, M. (1955) Quelques espèces nouvelles ou mal connues de l'Oligocene moyen et supérieur de la Belgique. Bulletin Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Mémoire, 31(86), 1–7.
page(s): 5 [details]
basis of record Todd J.A. & Rawlings T.A. (2014). A review of the <i>Polystira</i> clade — the Neotropic's largest marine gastropod radiation (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae <i>sensu stricto</i>). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3884(5): 445-491., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3884.5.5 [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Kantor, Y., Bouchet, P., Fedosov, A., Puillandre, N. & Zaharias, P. (2024). Generic revision of the Recent Turridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> eyae032: 1-40.
page(s): 11, figs 5K-L, 7F-J [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 11, figs 5K-L, 7F-J [details] Available for editors

Other
additional source
Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 77(3): 273-308., available online at http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full.pdf [details]



