An illustrated catalogue of Rudolf Sturany's type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria (NHMW): Red Sea gastropods Author Albano, Paolo G. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9876-1024 Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria pgalbano@gmail.com Author Bakker, Piet A. J. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands Author Janssen, Ronald Malacology Section, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Author Eschner, Anita Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, 3. Zoologische Abteilung, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien text Zoosystematics and Evolution 2017 2017-01-18 93 1 45 94 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.10039 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.10039 1860-0743-1-45 0BA1B8432BD449FC8FDAF68041A5D167 8BF19C7ACDA45671A0A8BCF324660CD0 250941 Pleurotoma (? Drillia) inchoata Sturany, 1900 Figure 22 Pleurotoma (? Drillia) inchoata Sturany, 1900b: 210; redescribed and illustrated in Sturany (1903) , page 229-230, plate III, figures 8a-b. Type locality. Station 145, "oestlich von J. Dahalak" [east of Dahlak Island, Eritrea], 16°2.6'N , 41°13.5'E , 800 m. Type material. Holotype: NHMW 84251, height 21.2 mm. Original description. Schale abgestutzt spindelfoermig , hellgelb, aus 9 1/2 Umgaengen bestehend, deren jeder mit Ausnahme des Embryonalgewindes in seiner oberen Haelfte concav, in seiner unteren convex gebaut ist, und welche mit zahlreichen Spiralreifen und circa 15-16 wellenfoermig verlaufenden Querrippen ausgestattet sind; ueberdies stehen zwischen den Querrippen noch mikroskopisch feine Anwachsstreifen. Unmittelbar vor der (leider mangelhaft erhaltenen) Muendung eine knotig angeschwollene und nach rechts vorgezogene Querrippe. Hoehe der Schale 21,3, Breite 9,0 mm; Hoehe der Muendung 9,1 mm. Ein einziges Exemplar von Station 145 (800 m). Verwandt mit Pleurotoma (Drillia) pallida Sow.; in der Form an Columbella angularis Sow. gemahnend. Figure 22. Pleurotoma inchoata Sturany, 1900, Station 145 (Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea, Red Sea). A . Original figure by Sturany (1903) . B-D , F . Holotype, NHMW 84251: front ( B ), right side ( C ), back ( D ), protoconch ( F ). E . Original holotype label. Scale bars: B-D : 5 mm, F : 0.5 mm. Translation. Shell truncated and fusiform, pale yellow, made by 9.5 whorls, concave in their upper half and convex in the lower half, with the exception of the protoconch; with numerous spiral threads and approximately 15 - 16 undulated axial ribs among which microscopically fine growth lines stand. Immediately prior to the (unfortunately poorly preserved) aperture, there is a thick nodulose axial rib bent to the right. Height of the shell 21.3 mm, width 9.0 mm; height of the mouth 9.1 mm. A single specimen from station 145 (800 m). Related to Pleurotoma (Drillia) pallida Sowerby; shape reminding Columbella angularis Sowerby. Comments. This species can be assigned to the genus Drillia Gray, 1838