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Polystira albida

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae

Taxonomy
Pleurotoma albida was named by Perry (1811) [DISTRIBUTION: Miocene-Pliocene; Caribbean.]. It is extant. It is the type species of Polystira.

It was recombined as Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) albida by Martin (1904); it was recombined as Turris albida by Maury (1917), Olsson (1922), Mansfield (1925), Hanna (1926), Weisbord (1929) and Anderson (1929); it was recombined as Turris (Polystira) albida by Oinomikado (1939); it was recombined as Pleuroliria (Polystira) albida by Woodring (1970); it was recombined as Polystira albida by Woodring (1928), DuBar (1958), Landau and Marques da Silva (2010) and Todd and Johnson (2013).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. albidata, P. albidoides, P. panamensis

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1811Pleurotoma albida Perry
1889Pleurotoma albida Dall p. 72
1904Pleurotoma (Hemipleurotoma) albida Martin p. 146
1911Pleurotoma albida Brown and Pilsbry p. 343
1917Turris albida Maury p. 50
1922Turris albida Olsson p. 58
1925Turris albida Mansfield p. 16
1926Turris albida Hanna p. 456
1928Polystira albida Woodring p. 145
1929Turris albida Anderson p. 113
1929Turris albida Weisbord p. 53
1939Turris (Polystira) albida Oinomikado p. 624
1958Polystira albida DuBar p. 185
1970Pleuroliria (Polystira) albida Woodring p. 365
2010Polystira albida Landau and Marques da Silva p. 110
2013Polystira albida Todd and Johnson p. 4

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
orderNeogastropodaThiele 1929
superfamilyConoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyTurridaeSwainson 1840
genusPolystira
speciesalbida(Perry 1811)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Polystira albida Perry 1811
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:09:25
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:09:25
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Early/Lower Oligocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 33.90000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (12 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Early/Lower Oligocene - Middle Miocene33.9 - 11.608Haiti Turris albida (173459)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Dominican Republic Turris albida (58815 58818 58819 58822 58823 58873)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Colombia Turritella albida (93725)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (Florida) Polystira albida (41497 41501 79331)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Saudi Arabia Polystira albida (192720)