Polystira oxytropis | |
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Drawing of a shell of Polystira oxytropis | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Turridae |
Genus: | Polystira |
Species: | P. oxytropis
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Binomial name | |
Polystira oxytropis (
Sowerby I, 1834)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Polystira oxytropis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids. [1]
The horn-colored shell contains several sharp keels and numerous spiral raised lines. The upper keel is the strongest, angulating the whorls, the surface concave above it. [2]
P. oxytropis is considered an "umbrella species" with considerable diversity as shown by DNA sequence data coupled with conchological studies. [3]
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This is an Eastern Pacific species, occurring off Western Mexico, in the Gulf of Panama and the Pacific coast of Colombia.