Antillophos laeve: Phos laeve Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961: app. 20-21. Phos laevis (sic) Kuroda & Habe in Habe, 1961: 61, pl. 31, fig. 8. Type locality: Japan, southwestern Shikoka, off Cape Ashizuri, 100-300 m deep.
The species is spelled Phos laeve by Kuroda & Habe on app. 20 in Habe, 1961, the name laevie is used twice in the same work. The misspelling was corrected in the second printing and all later editions of the book (Callomon & Petit, 2004).
This remarkable species differs from all other known species by the moderately large size in combination with an almost smooth penultimate and body whorl. Both features make the shell resemble on first glance to a Nassarius.
RANGE
From southern Japan to the Philippines. Rare.

Phos laevis is characterized by its pale colour without pattern and moderately smooth shell with a glossy surface. Variability of the sculpture is high; some specimens are smooth without much spiral sculpture and with weak axial sculpture mainly on the upper spire whorls, while other specimens have well developed axial ribs; a few specimens have smooth but well visible spiral cords running along all whorls. Because an identical variability is observed in specimens from the western Pacific (Fraussen & Galindo in prep.) we tentatively regard these specimens from the East Indian Ocean as conspecific with the West Pacific P. laevis. Formerly known from Japan and the Philippines, the species is here recorded from off Madagascar (Campagne CREVETTIERE 1974 stn DC01 and MIRIKY stn DW3217) and off Reunion island (MD32 stn DC 128).