Jump to content

Inquisitor variabilis

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Inquisitor variabilis
Shell of Inquisitor variabilis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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. variabilis
Binomial name
Inquisitor variabilis
(E. A. Smith, 1877)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia variabilis (Smith E. A., 1877)
  • Pleurotoma variabilis Smith E. A., 1877

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

Description

[edit]

The shell is yellowish brown, sometimes irregularly maculated with chestnut, with chestnut spots on a narrow band below the suture. The spire is long and turreted. It is slightly umbilicated. The large sinus is ascending.[2]

Distribution

[edit]

This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands.

References

[edit]
  • Smith, E.A. (1877). "Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (19): 488–501.
  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
[edit]