Marine Species Traits - Polystira Woodring, 1928

WoRMS taxon details

Polystira Woodring, 1928

AphiaID

391298 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391298)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Pleurotoma albida G. Perry, 1811 accepted as Polystira albida (G. Perry, 1811) (type by original designation)

Parent

Turridae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (1838)

Synonymised names

Turris (Oxytropa) Glibert, 1955 · unaccepted

Direct children (28)

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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)

Environment

marine

Original description

Woodring, W. P. (1928). Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 385: vii + 564 pp., 40 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59220479
page(s): 145 [details]

Taxonomic citation

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 2025-05-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-15 09:48:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2009-12-02 08:40:23Z

changed

Tucker, John

2010-01-21 11:31:04Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-08-04 19:45:22Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-09-21 19:59:55Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Woodring, W. P. (1928). Miocene mollusks from Bowden, Jamaica. 2. Gastropods and discussion of results. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication. 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 Polystira clade — the Neotropic's largest marine gastropod radiation (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae sensu stricto). Zootaxa. 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). Journal of Molluscan Studies. eyae032: 1-40.
page(s): 11, figs 5K-L, 7F-J [details] Available for editors

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Other

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

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