Polystira jelskii

Polystira jelskii
Shell of Polystira jelskii (holotype at USNM)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Polystira
Species:	P. jelskii
Binomial name
Polystira jelskii (Crosse, 1865)
Synonyms
Pleurotoma jelskiiCrosse, 1865 (original combination) Polystira hilliPetuch, 1988

Polystira jelskii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turridae, the turrids. ^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

References

1. Rosenberg, G. (2014). Polystira jelskii (Crosse, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533325 on 2015-01-22}

• Petuch, E. J. Neogene History of Tropical American Mollusks: Biogeography and Evolutionary Patterns of Tropical Western Atlantic Mollusks. p. 163; pl. 38; figs. 7, 8.

External links

• 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