Amoria dampieria

Amoria dampieria
Shell of Amoria dampieria (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Volutidae
Genus: Amoria
Species:
A. dampieria
Binomial name
Amoria dampieria
Weaver, 1960
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  • Amoria (Amoria) dampieria Weaver, 1960
  • Zebramoria zebra dampieria Cotton, B.C. 1949 (nomen nudum)

Amoria dampieria, common name the Dampier's volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 33 mm.

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

References

  1. ^ Amoria dampieria Weaver, 1960. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 November 2012.
  • Weaver, C.S. (1960). "Hawaiian scientific expedition finds rare Western Australian Volutes". Hawaiian Shell News. 12 (8): 1–3.
  • McMichael, D.F. 1964. Notes on the genera Amoria Gray, 1855, and Zebramoria Iredale, 1924, (Gastropoda: Volutidae), with description of new species. Records of the Australian Museum 26: 265-274
  • Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107.
  • Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. Living Volutes - A Monograph of the Recent Volutidae of the World. Monograph Series No. 1. Greenville Delaware : Delaware Museum of Natural History pp. 1–375.
  • Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
  • Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp.
  • Bail P. & Limpus A. (2001) The genus Amoria. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds) A conchological iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 50 pp., 93 pls
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