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Polystira tellea

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Polystira tellea
Shell of Polystira tellea (syntype at the Smithsonian Institution)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Turridae
Genus: Polystira
Species:
P. tellea
Binomial name
Polystira tellea
(Dall, 1889)
Synonyms[1]

Pleurotoma albida tellea Dall, 1889

Polystira tellea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turridae, the turrids.[1]

Description

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This form differs from the Polystira albida in having the revolving sculpture fainter and more uniform, the transverse sculpture much stronger and more elevated, giving a finely reticulated appearance to the surface. The anal notch is more shallow, the siphonal canal more slender, usually without any umbilical chink.[2]

Distribution

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P. tellea can be found in the Gulf of Mexico, ranging from Texas to western Florida.;[3] also off French Guiana, Suriname and Colombia. .

References

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  • Takeda, M. & Okutani, T. Crustaceans and Mollusks Trawled off Suriname and French Guiana. Tokio: Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, 353 p., 1983.
  • Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
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