Inquisitor sterrha

Inquisitor sterrha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Inquisitor
Species:	I. sterrha
Binomial name
	Inquisitor sterrha; (Watson, 1881)
Synonyms
	Drillia sinensis Brazier, 1876; Drillia sterrha (Watson, 1881); Drillia torresiana (Smith, 1884); Inquisitor sterrhus (Watson, 1881); Pleurotoma sterrha Watson, 1881; Pleurotoma torresiana Smith, E.A. 1884;

Inquisitor sterrha, common name the formidable turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

Description

This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific; the Gulf of Carpentaria, off Queensland, Australia; off the Philippines

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Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56
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.

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