Inquisitor intertinctus
| Inquisitor intertinctus | |
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| 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
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| Binomial name | |
| Inquisitor intertinctus (E. A. Smith, 1877)
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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
- ^ a b Inquisitor intertinctus (Smith E. A., 1877). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.