Species Inquisitor mastersi (Brazier, 1876)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Drillia mastersi 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].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) AM C.171028 dry, sandy mud bottom, Torres Strait, west side of Warrior Reef, Queensland, Australia [9°43'1.2'S,142°58'1.2'E].
• Pleurotoma essingtonensis Smith, E.A. 1888. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6 2: 300-317 [303].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia.

Generic Combinations

• Drillia essingtonensis (Smith, 1888). —
  Hedley, C. 1908. Studies on Australian Mollusca. Part 10. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 33: 456–489 [487, pl. 8, fig. 8]
• Inquisitor mastersi (Brazier, 1876). —
  Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [243]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sandy mud bottom, subtidal.

General References

Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213–359, pls 42–56 [243]

Tucker, J.K. 2004. Catalog of Recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682: 1–1295 [605]

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