Inquisitor sterrha | |
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Apertural view of a shell of Inquisitor sterrha | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Pseudomelatomidae |
Genus: | Inquisitor |
Species: | I. sterrha
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Binomial name | |
Inquisitor sterrha (Watson, 1881)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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Inquisitor sterrha, commonly known as the formidable turrid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.[1]
The length of this species is 39 mm, its diameter13 mm.
The body whorl contains in one specimen fourteen ribs, in another specimen seventeen ribs.[2]
This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific; the Gulf of Carpentaria, off Queensland, Australia; off the Philippines; southern Indonesia and southern Papua New Guinea.