Inquisitor zonata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.[1]

Inquisitor zonata
Drawing of a shell of Inquisitor zonata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Pseudomelatomidae
Genus: Inquisitor
Species:
I. zonata
Binomial name
Inquisitor zonata
(Reeve, 1843)
Synonyms[1]
  • Drillia zonata (Reeve, 1843)
  • Pleurotoma zonata Reeve, 1843

G.W. Tryon considered this species to be a synonym of Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822) [2]

Description

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Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Singapore and in the China Seas.

References

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  • Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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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.