Inquisitor intertinctus

Inquisitor intertinctus
Apertural view of a shell of Inquisitor intertinctus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Inquisitor
Species:	I. intertinctus
Binomial name
Inquisitor intertinctus (E. A. Smith, 1877)
Synonyms [1]
Pleurotoma (Drillia) intertinctaE. A. Smith, 1877 (basionym) Pleurotoma intertinctaSmith E. A., 1877

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

Description

The length of the shell varies from 20 mm to 40 mm.

This species seems to be somewhat variable in sculpture and colour. The spiral lirae of the penultimate whorl vary in number from 3 to 5. In other specimens not only the infrasutural keel is adorned with red-brown dots, but also the principal lirae on many places. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines, and west to the Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Islands; off the Northern Territories, Australia.

Behaviour

This species unlike many other molluscs are non-broadcast spawner and don't have a trocophore stage in there life cycle. ^[3]

References

1. Inquisitor intertinctus (Smith E. A., 1877) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 April 2010.
2. Schepman, 1913. The prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part IV -V - VI: Toxoglossa This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
3. "Inquisitor intertinctus". www.sealifebase.se. Retrieved 7 October 2025.

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

External links

• Baoquan Li 李宝泉 & R.N. Kilburn, Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas; Journal of Natural History 44(11):699-740 · March 2010; DOI: 10.1080/00222930903470086
• Gastropods.com: Inquisitor intertincta
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.