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Inquisitor nodicostatus

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Inquisitor nodicostatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Inquisitor
Species:
I. nodicostatus
Binomial name
Inquisitor nodicostatus
Kilburn, 1988
Synonyms[1]

Crassispira aesopus (non Schepman, 1913) Kilburn, 1973

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

Description

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The length of the shell attains 55,8 mm, its diameter 14,9 mm

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

References

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  • Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
  • "Inquisitor nodicostatus". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.