Species Inquisitor spicata (Hinds, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Clavatula spicata Hinds, R.B. 1843. Description of new shells from the collection of Captain Belcher. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 1 11: 16–21, 36–46, 255–257 [39].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1879.2.26.52, Bow Island, Qld.
• Drillia spaldingi Brazier, J. 1876. A list of the Pleurotomidae collected during the Chevert expedition, with the description of the new species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 1: 151–162 [153].
• Inquisitor fimbriatus Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [238, pl. 43, fig. 27].
• Drillia hololeuca Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [58, pl. 2, fig. 61].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• 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 [80]

Generic Combinations

• Inquisitor spicata (Hinds, 1843). —
  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 [80, pl. 2, figs 1-8]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Hinds, R.B. 1844. The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, under the command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, during the years 1836–42. London : Smith, Elder & Co. Vol. 2 v + 72 pp., pls 1–21. [17, pl. 5, fig. 11]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [923-924]

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 [80, pl. 2, figs 1-8]

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