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Species of gastropod

Inquisitor insignita
Original image of a shell and the protoconch of Inquisitor insignita
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Inquisitor
Species: I. insignita
Binomial name
Inquisitor insignita
(Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms

Drillia insignita Melvill, 1923

Inquisitor insignita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Description

The 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.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Indonesia.

References

  1. ^ Inquisitor insignita (Melvill, 1923). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
  2. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London v. 14-15 (1923) (described as Drillia insignita)
  • Liu J.Y. (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp

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Taxon identifiers
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