Inquisitor insignita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
| Inquisitor insignita | |
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| Original image of a shell and the protoconch of Inquisitor insignita | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
| Genus: | Inquisitor |
| Species: | I. insignita
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| Binomial name | |
| Inquisitor insignita (Melvill, 1923)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Drillia insignita Melvill, 1923 | |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 26 mm, its diameter 10 mm.
(Original description) The fusiform shell is gradually attenuate and incrassate. it is of a rich siennabrown in colour. it contains 12 whorls, including three whorls of the protoconch, smooth, shining brown, semidiaphanous, centrally carinate. The fourth whorl shows numerous somewhat undeveloped noduled riblets. The remaining eight whorls are spirally ornamented with close revolving lines, crossing the conspicuously noduled longitudinal ribs. The nodules are white. The body whorl is obliquely twelve-ribbed, below the periphery obscurely fasciated with white. The siphonal canal is somewhat extended and straight columellarly. The outer lip is effuse. The anal sinus is well marked, narrow, but deep.[2]
Distribution
editThis marine species occurs off the Philippines and Indonesia.
References
edit- ^ a b Inquisitor insignita (Melvill, 1923). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923) (described as Drillia insignita)
- Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp
External links
edit- "Inquisitor insignita". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
- Catalogue of Life in Taiwan: Inquisitor insignita