Inquisitor variabilis

Inquisitor variabilis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.^[1]

Inquisitor variabilis
Shell of Inquisitor variabilis (specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Pseudomelatomidae
Genus:	Inquisitor
Species:	I. variabilis
Binomial name
Inquisitor variabilis (E. A. Smith, 1877)
Synonyms[1]
Drillia variabilis (Smith E. A., 1877) Pleurotoma variabilis Smith E. A., 1877

Description

The shell is yellowish brown, sometimes irregularly maculated with chestnut, with chestnut spots on a narrow band below the suture. The spire is long and turreted. It is slightly umbilicated. The large sinus is ascending.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Andaman Islands.