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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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Inquisitor
Species:
I. elegans
Binomial name
Inquisitor elegans
Bozzetti, 1993

Description

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The length of the shell attains 35 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Somalia.

References

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  1. ^ 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.
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  • 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