Inquisitor incerta ( Smith, 1877 )

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 : 719

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Pleurotoma (Drillia) incerta Smith, 1877, p 496 . Type loc.: New Guinea.

Drillia incerta: Schepman 1913, p 408 (44); Melvill 1917, p 153, pl. 8, fig. 5. Brachytoma incerta: Gravely 1942, p 75 .

Material examined

SCS. One specimen, CN 54-671 , Dongping, Guangdong, 12 November 1954 ; 5 spms, CN 57-111 , Pingtan, Fujian, 21 March 1957 ; 3 spms, CN N28 B-29, 20°48′ N, 110°45′ E, sandy mud, 18 m, AT, 17 April 1959 GoogleMaps ; 1 spm, CN SIII36 B-77, 23°15′ N, 117°00′ E, coarse sand, 23.5 m, AT, 21 July 1959 GoogleMaps .

Measurements

See Table 1.

Distribution

SCS; India to Papua New Guinea. Not previously recorded from the China Seas.

Remarks

Specimens from the China Seas agree with photographs ( Figure 1E View Figure 1 ) of a syntype of Pleurotoma incerta ( BMNH 1854.4.10.59). This species may prove referable to genus Funa .

References

Gravely FH. 1942. Shells and other animal remains found on the Madras Beach. II. Snails, etc (Mollusca Gastropoda). Bull Madras Govt Mus NH 5 (2): 1 - 110.

Melvill JC. 1917. A revision of the Turridae (Pleurotomidae) occurring in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and the North Arabian Sea as evidenced mostly through the results of dredgings carried out by Mr. F. W. Townsend 1893 - 1914. Proc Zool Soc Lond. 12: 140 - 201.

Schepman MM. 1913. The Prosobranchia of the Siboga expedition. Part 5. Toxoglossa. Siboga Exp. Monogr. 49: 367 - 452, pl. 24 - 30.

Smith EA. 1877. Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Ann Mag Nat Hist. 4 (19): 488 - 501.

Figures

Figure 1. Species of subfamily Crassispirinae. (A) Aguilaria subochracea (SCS, CN 54–779); (B) lectotype (Taylor and Wells, 1994, as “Holotype”) of Pleurotoma (Drillia) subochracea, BMNH 1988065, China Seas (probably); 38.8 × 12.3 mm; (C, D) Inquisitor incerta (SCS, CN 54–671); (E) syntype of Pleurotoma (Drillia) incerta, BMNH 1854.4.10.59, New Guinea; 25.0 × 7.9 mm; (F, G) Inquisitor plurivaricis (holotype, ECS, CN 553B–35, 114 m, 41.5 × 12.5 mm); (H) Inquisitor latifasciata (ECS, CN 57–658); (I) Inquisitor aesopus (Beibu Gulf, CN Q21B-22); (J) lectotype of Drillia aesopus, ZMAN (des. Kilburn, 1988), Kwandang Bay, west of entrance, north coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia, 72 m, fine sand with mud; 36.5 × 9.1 mm.