MolluscaBase taxon details
Polystira oxytropis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
434714 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:434714)
accepted
Species
Pleurotoma albicarinata G. B. Sowerby II, 1870 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pleurotoma oxytropis G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 · unaccepted > superseded combination (original combination)
- Subspecies Polystira oxytropis ecuadoriana Olsson, 1964 † (uncertain > unassessed)
marine
(of Pleurotoma oxytropis G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1834). [Characters of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1833: 16-22, 34-38 [17 May]; 52-56 [24 May]; 70-74 [20 September]; 82–85 [8 September]; 134-139. [16 April 1834]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859474
page(s): 135 [details]
page(s): 135 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Polystira oxytropis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=434714 on 2025-09-11
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original description
(of Pleurotoma oxytropis G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1834). [Characters of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1833: 16-22, 34-38 [17 May]; 52-56 [24 May]; 70-74 [20 September]; 82–85 [8 September]; 134-139. [16 April 1834]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859474
page(s): 135 [details]
original description (of Pleurotoma albicarinata G. B. Sowerby II, 1870) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1870). Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1870: 249-259 [November]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28555089 [details]
taxonomy source Todd J.A. & Rawlings T.A. (2014). A review of the <i>Polystira</i> clade — the Neotropic's largest marine gastropod radiation (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae <i>sensu stricto</i>). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3884(5): 445-491., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3884.5.5 [details]
status source Kantor, Y., Bouchet, P., Fedosov, A., Puillandre, N. & Zaharias, P. (2024). Generic revision of the Recent Turridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> eyae032: 1-40.
page(s): 13 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 135 [details]
original description (of Pleurotoma albicarinata G. B. Sowerby II, 1870) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1870). Descriptions of forty-eight new species of shells. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1870: 249-259 [November]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28555089 [details]
taxonomy source Todd J.A. & Rawlings T.A. (2014). A review of the <i>Polystira</i> clade — the Neotropic's largest marine gastropod radiation (Neogastropoda: Conoidea: Turridae <i>sensu stricto</i>). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 3884(5): 445-491., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3884.5.5 [details]
status source Kantor, Y., Bouchet, P., Fedosov, A., Puillandre, N. & Zaharias, P. (2024). Generic revision of the Recent Turridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> eyae032: 1-40.
page(s): 13 [details] Available for editors





To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polystira oxytropis)
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 12 proteins) (from synonym Pleurotoma oxytropis G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To Malacopics (Polystira oxytropis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834))
To Malacopics (Polystira oxytropis (G.B.Sowerby,1834))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polystira oxytropis)
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 12 proteins) (from synonym Pleurotoma oxytropis G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 12 proteins)
To Malacopics (Polystira oxytropis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834))
To Malacopics (Polystira oxytropis (G.B.Sowerby,1834))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection