Inquisitor rufovaricosus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids.[1]
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| Apertural view of a shell of Inquisitor rufovaricosus | |
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. rufovaricosus
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| Binomial name | |
| Inquisitor rufovaricosus (Kuroda & Oyama, 1971)
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Crassispira rufovaricosa Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 | |
Description
editInquisitor rufovaricosus has a shell size of 25–65 mm.[2]
Distribution
editInquisitor rufovaricosus is native to Malaysia, the Philippines, and Japan.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Inquisitor rufovaricosus (Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ a b "Inquisitor rufovaricosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- Kuroda, T.; Habe, T.; Oyama, K. (1971). The sea shells of Sagami Bay. Maruzen Co., Tokyo. xix, 1-741 (Japanese text), 1-489 (English text), 1-51 (Index), pls 1-121
- Stahlschmidt P. & Fraussen K. (2017). Description of Inquisitor ritae new species from the Philippines (Conoidea: Pseudomelatomidae). Miscellanea Malacologica. 7(2): 29–32.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inquisitor rufovaricosus.
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- "Inquisitor nudivaricosa". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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