Typhinellus insolitus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. The species is known only from its holotype collected off New Caledonia.
Description The shell is medium-sized for the subgenus, reaching a length of 16.9 mm at maturity. The spire is high, consisting of five teleoconch whorls; the protoconch is broken in the holotype. Sutures are impressed. Each whorl bears four varices. On the last teleoconch whorl, the varices are sharp.
Distribution Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia. The holotype was collected dead at a depth of approximately 373 m.
Ecology No information is available on the ecology or life habits of this species. No additional material has been collected since the original description.
Etymology The specific name insolitus is derived from Latin, meaning "unusual", referring to the unusual shape of the shell.
References
External links Houart, R. (1991). Description of thirteen new species of Muricidae (Gastropoda) from Australia and the New Caledonian region, with range extensions to South Africa. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia. 12: 35-55