Inquisitor sterrha

Inquisitor sterrha
Apertural view of a shell of Inquisitor sterrha
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Inquisitor
Species:	I. sterrha
Binomial name
Inquisitor sterrha (Watson, 1881)
Synonyms [1]
Drillia sinensisBrazier, 1876 Drillia sterrha(Watson, 1881) Drillia torresiana(Smith, 1884) Inquisitor sterrhus(Watson, 1881) Pleurotoma sterrhaWatson, 1881 Pleurotoma torresianaSmith, E.A. 1884

Inquisitor sterrha, commonly known as the formidable turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of this species is 39 mm, its diameter13 mm.

The body whorl contains in one specimen fourteen ribs, in another specimen seventeen ribs. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-Pacific; the Gulf of Carpentaria, off Queensland, Australia; off the Philippines; southern Indonesia and southern Papua New Guinea.

References

1. Inquisitor sterrha (Watson, 1881) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 4 April 2010.
2. Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• 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)
• 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.

External links

• "Inquisitor sterrha". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.