Inquisitor aesopus
Inquisitor aesopus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies. Description The length of the shell varies between 28 mm and 70 mm. (Original description) The fusiform shell has a long, acute spire. It is yellowish-brown, alternating with red-brown. It contains 13 or 14 whorls which at least 2 (uppermost whorl broken) form a smooth protoconch. The subsequent whorls are scarcely convex, probably about half a whorl with only a few smooth ribs must still be reckoned to the protoconch. The remaining whorls contain a rather strong, nodulous, bilirate, infrasutural rib, red-brown in the interstices of nodules. Below this is a rather narrow excavated space, with 5 spiral threads and faint, descending, red-brown llammules, corresponding to the interstices of the subsulural nodules. The lower part of the whorls show slightly oblique, rather numerous ribs, 17 in number on penultimate whorl. The ribbed zone is convex, angular above, crossed by 4, on lower whorls by 5 rather flat, stronger, spiral lirae and between these 2 fainter spirals. The shell has moreover rather strong growth lines, making the interstices between the ribs granular. These interstices are more or less red-brown. On the