Inquisitor sterrha

Inquisitor sterrha, common name the formidable turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]

Inquisitor sterrha
Apertural view of a shell of Inquisitor sterrha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Inquisitor
Species:
I. sterrha
Binomial name
Inquisitor sterrha
(Watson, 1881)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia sinensis Brazier, 1876
  • Drillia sterrha (Watson, 1881)
  • Drillia torresiana (Smith, 1884)
  • Inquisitor sterrhus (Watson, 1881)
  • Pleurotoma sterrha Watson, 1881
  • Pleurotoma torresiana Smith, E.A. 1884

Description

The length of this species is 39 mm, its diameter13 mm.

The body whorl contains in one specimen fourteen ribs, in another specimen seventeen ribs.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific; the Gulf of Carpentaria, off Queensland, Australia; off the Philippines; southern Indonesia and southern Papua New Guinea.

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References
  1. Inquisitor sterrha (Watson, 1881). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. 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.
  • Watson, R.B. 1881. Mollusca of "H.M.S. Challenger" expedition. Parts VIII-X. Pleurotomidae. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 15: 388–475
  • Smith, E.A. 1884. Mollusca. pp. 34–116, 487–508, 657–659, pls 4–7. In, Report on the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of the H.M.S. 'Alert ' 1881-2. London : British Museum Trustees, printed by Taylor & Francis.
  • Schepman, M.M. 1913. Toxoglossa. pp. 384–396 in Weber, M. & de Beaufort, L.F. (eds). The Prosobranchia, Pulmonata and Opisthobranchia Tectibranchiata, Tribe Bullomorpha, of the Siboga Expedition. Monograph 49. Siboga Expeditie 32(2)
  • Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef Shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp.
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1968. The Turrid shellfish of Australian waters. Australian Natural History 1 16: 1–6
  • Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp.
  • Wells, F.E. 1994. A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Inquisitor and Ptychobela. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 15: 71–102
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • "Inquisitor sterrha". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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