Inquisitor | |
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A shell of Inquisitor aesopus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Inquisitor Hedley, 1918 |
Type species | |
Pleurotoma sterrha R. B. Watson, 1881 | |
Species | |
See text |
Inquisitor is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae. [1]
This marine genus occurs in the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and East Africa to Japan; also off Australia.
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Inquisitor: [1]