Inquisitor japonicus ( Lischke, 1869 )

Li, Bao Quan, Kilburn, Richard N. & Li, Xin Zheng, 2010, Report on Crassispirinae Morrison, 1966 (Mollusca: Neogastropoda: Turridae) from the China Seas, Journal of Natural History 44 (11 - 12), pp. 699-740 : 720-721

* Inquisitor japonicus ( Lischke, 1869)

( Figure 2C )

Drillia japonica Lischke, 1869, p 32 –33; Smith 1879, p 191, pl. 19, fig. 15; Cosel 1998, p 27. Type loc.: Nagasaki, west Kyushu, Japan.

Inquisitor japonicum: Kira 1964, p 124 , pl. 39, fig. 25.

Clavus (Tylotiella) japonicus: Kuroda et al. 1971, p 205 , pl. 55, fig. 3; Hasegawa et al. 2000, p 621, pl. 309, fig. 7.

Tylotiella japonica: Higo et al. 1999, p 297 .

(See Tucker 2004: 512, for further references.)

Material examined

Yellow Sea. One specimen, CN 51-719 , Qingdao , Shandong, 22 February 1951 ; 2 spms, CN V462 B-24, 31°30′ N, 123°00′ E, silty mud, 43 m, AT, 8 October 1975 .

Measurements

See Table 1.

Distribution

Yellow Sea, ECS; Japan, Korea. Not previously recorded from the China Seas.

Remarks

We have not been given access to the syntypes of this species, and they have evidently never been illustrated. Our identification is based on the figures cited above, and a specimen in the BMNH from the Sykes collection. Furthermore, the systematic position of this species cannot be resolved from the shell alone, and it may prove to belong to the family Drilliidae .

Figures

Figure 2. Species of subfamily Crassispirinae. (A) Funa jeffreysii (Beibu Gulf, CN N177B- 47); (B) Funa latisinuata (SCS, CN Q119B-7-1); (C) Inquisitor japonicus (Yellow Sea, CN V462B-24-1); (D) Inquisitor nudivaricosus (ECS, CN V527B-35-1); (E) Inquisitor varicosus (Hainan Island); (F) Cheungbeia laterculata (Nansha Islands, SSBV27-14); (G) Cheungbeia kawamurai (CSC, CN 55-902-1); (H) Cheungbeia mindanensis (holotype,BM2); (I) holotype of Pleurotoma laterculata, BMNH 1874.12.11.293, Lombe Taylor collection, China Seas; length 30 mm; (J) Turridrupa prestoni (Nansha Islands, CN SSVIIIB8-16).