| Polystira oxytropis | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Polystira oxytropis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Turridae |
| Genus: | Polystira |
| Species: | P. oxytropis |
| Binomial name | |
| Polystira oxytropis (Sowerby I, 1834) | |
| 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.
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