Polystira antillarum

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

Polystira antillarum
Drawing of a shell of Polystira antillarum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Turridae
Genus:	Polystira
Species:	P. antillarum
Binomial name
Polystira antillarum (Crosse, 1865)
Synonyms[1]
Pleurotoma antillarum Crosse, 1865 (non d'Orbigny, 1848)

Description

(Description of Pleurotoma virgo) The shell is ridged and striated, the central ridge forming a carina. The shell is usually glossy white, but when covered by its epidermis corneous.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the West Indies (Guadeloupe).