Inquisitor insignita

Inquisitor insignita
Original image of a shell and the protoconch of Inquisitor insignita
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Inquisitor
Species:	I. insignita
Binomial name
Inquisitor insignita (Melvill, 1923)
Synonyms[1]
Drillia insignita Melvill, 1923

Inquisitor insignita is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae.^[1]

The length of the shell attains 26 mm, its diameter 10 mm.

(Original description) The fusiform shell is gradually attenuate and incrassate. it is of a rich siennabrown in colour. it contains 12 whorls, including three whorls of the protoconch, smooth, shining brown, semidiaphanous, centrally carinate. The fourth whorl shows numerous somewhat undeveloped noduled riblets. The remaining eight whorls are spirally ornamented with close revolving lines, crossing the conspicuously noduled longitudinal ribs. The nodules are white. The body whorl is obliquely twelve-ribbed, below the periphery obscurely fasciated with white. The siphonal canal is somewhat extended and straight columellarly. The outer lip is effuse. The anal sinus is well marked, narrow, but deep.^[2]

This marine species occurs off the Philippines and Indonesia.

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

• "Inquisitor insignita". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
• Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
• Catalogue of Life in Taiwan: Inquisitor insignita