Inquisitor sterrha

Inquisitor sterrha
Apertural view of a shell of Inquisitor sterrha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): 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

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

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific; the Gulf of Carpentaria, off Queensland, Australia; off the Philippines

References

  1. 1 2 Inquisitor sterrha (Watson, 1881).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  • 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)
  • Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
  • 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.


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