Inquisitor mastersi

Inquisitor mastersi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Inquisitor mastersi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Clade:	Caenogastropoda
Clade:	Hypsogastropoda
Clade:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Inquisitor
Species:	I. mastersi
Binomial name
Inquisitor mastersi (Brazier, 1876)
Synonyms[1]
Drillia mastersi Brazier, 1876 (original combination) Pleurotoma (Drillia) essingtonensis E. A. Smith, 1888 Pleurotoma essingtonensis E. A. Smith, 1888

Taxonomy

Wells (1994) excluded mastersi from Inquisitor, but did not suggest an alternative generic allocation. It is thus here kept provisionally in Inquisitor[2]

Description

The reddish brown, solid shell is ovate and depressly flattened at the upper part. It contains 8, transversely sculptured, whorls. The centre of the upper whorls is tuberculated, spotted with white, the last longitudinally rather obliquely ribbed. At the angle they become more like prickly nodules, below somewhat white. The suture is minutely spirally striated. The outer lip is simple, brownish in centre, having an obsolete white sinus below. The upper sinus is white, deep, and wide, with a thick deposit of callus on the body whorl, and extending down in a thin plate to the columellar. The siphonal canal is very short and wide. (described as Drillia mastersi Brazier, 1876).[3]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Northern Territory, Queensland.

References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Inquisitor mastersi (Brazier, 1876). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1263768 on 2018-10-22
2. Wells, Fred E. "A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Inquisitor and Ptychobela." Molluscan Research 15.1 (1994): 71–102.
3. Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162

• Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162
• Smith, E.A. 1888. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 2: 300–317
• Hedley, C. 1908. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part 10. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 456–489

External links

• Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42-56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1–1295