Inquisitor spicata

Inquisitor spicata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Inquisitor
Species: I. spicata
Binomial name
Inquisitor spicata
(Hinds, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavatula spicata Hinds, 1843
  • Drillia hololeuca N.H. Odhner, 1917
  • Drillia spaldingi J.W. Brazier, 1876
  • Inquisitor fibratus Hedley, C. 1922

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

Distribution

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

References

  1. 1 2 Inquisitor spicata (Hinds, 1843).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  • Hinds, R.B. 1843. Description of new shells from the collection of Captain Belcher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 1 11: 16-21, 36-46, 255-257
  • 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
  • Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910-1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1-115 pls 1-3
  • Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
  • 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


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