Inquisitor elegans is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]
| Inquisitor elegans | |
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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. elegans
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| Binomial name | |
| Inquisitor elegans Bozzetti, 1993
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 35 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Somalia.
References
edit- ^ a b Inquisitor elegans Bozzetti, 1993. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 4 April 2010.
- Bozzetti L. (1994). Description of two new species of the genera Xenuroturris Iredale.and Inquisitor from north-western Indian Ocean (Gastropoda Turridae). Bulletin of the Institute of Malacology, Tokyo. 3(2): 24-27.
External links
edit- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Gastropods.com: Inquisitor elegans
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