Species Inquisitor dampierius (Hedley, 1922)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Melatoma dampieria Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [250, pl. 55, fig. 41].

  Type data:

   Lectotype AM C.171025 dry, Shark Bay, Western Australia, Australia [26°7'1.2'S,113°25'1.2'E].
  Status unknown, Shark Bay, Western Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Splendrillia dampieri (Hedley, 1922). —
  Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1986. Seashells of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 207 pp. [120, pl. 40, fig. 464]
• Antimelatoma dampieria (Hedley, 1922). —
  Cotton, B.C. 1947. Australian Recent and Tertiary Turridae. Adelaide : Field Naturalist's Section of the Royal Society of South Australia. Conchology Club Vol. 4 pp. 1-34. [7]
• Inquisitor dampierius (Hedley, 1922). —
  Wells, F.E. 1994. A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Inquisitor and Ptychobela. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 15: 71-102 [77, pl. 1, figs 5, 6]

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [279]

Wells, F.E. 1994. A revision of the Recent Australian species of the turrid genera Inquisitor and Ptychobela. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australasia 15: 71-102 [77, pl. 1, figs 5, 6]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [186, pl. 40, fig. 28]

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