Genus Amoria Gray, 1855

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amoria Gray, J.E. 1855. Observations of the species of Volutes — Volutidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1855(Part 23): 50-65 [Date published 16 May 1855] [64].

  Type species:

   Voluta turneri Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834 by subsequent designation.
• Cymbiolista Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [181].

  Type species:

   Voluta marmorata Swainson, 1821 (=Cymbiolista hunteri Iredale, 1931) by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

SE Asia and Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

General References

Bail, P. 2000. Revision of the Family Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 89: 15-24 [21] (in subfamily Amoriinae)

Bail, P., Limpus, A. & Poppe, G.T. 2001. The Genus Amoria. In, Bail, P & Poppe, G. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction to the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim : ConchBooks 50 pp., 93 pls.

Bondarev, I. 1995. A phylogenetic classification of Australia Volutidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with the description of a new subgenus and a new subfamily. La Conchiglia 27(276): 25-38 [36] (divided into three subgenera: Amoria, Cymbiolista and Canamoria)

Ludbrook, N.H. 1953. Systematic revision of the volutid Genus Amoria. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 30: 131-153 [131]

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 [265]

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [36]

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. [147]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [111]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	02-Feb-2012	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED