Species Amoria damonii Gray, 1864
Damon's Volute, Gatliff's Volute, Port Keat's Volute
- Amoria turneri damonii Gray, J.E. 1864. Some observations on the genus Amoria with descriptions of some new varieties. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 14: 236-237 [237].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1862.6.41, north of Swan River, Western Australia, Australia. - Voluta reticulata Reeve, L.A. 1844. A new species of Delphinula and a new Voluta. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 11: 141-144 [144] [non Voluta reticulata Linnaeus, 1767; non Voluta reticulata Gmelin, 1791 =Voluta praetexta Reeve, 1849].
Type data:
Status unknown, New Holland (Australia). - Voluta damonii reevei Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1864. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 3 269-275, pls 11-12. [269].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, from the coast of New Holland (Australia). - Voluta damonii keatsiana Ludbrook, N.H. 1953. Systematic revision of the volutid Genus Amoria. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 30: 131-153 [138, pl. 18, fig. 9].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1911.6.21.1, Port Keats, Northern Territory (Australia).
Generic Combinations
- Amoria (Amoria) damonii reevei (Gray, 1864). —
Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1967. A review of Amoria damoni Gray, 1864 and two species proposed for the homonyns Voluta bullata Swainson, 1828 and Voluta lineata Leach, 1814. Veliger 9(4): 382-387, pls 52, 53 [385, pl. 53, figs 9-13] (New combination) - Amoria reticulata (Reeve, 1844). —
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] (New combination)
Miscellaneous Literature Names
- Voluta pallida auct. [misidentification, non Voluta pallida Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834 = Amoria grayi Ludbrook, 1953]. —
Sowerby, G.B. 1845. Monograph of the Genus Voluta. 191-220, pls 46-55 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed.). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 1. [196, pl. 53, fig. 94] - Voluta (Alcithoe) praetexta auct. [misidentification, non Voluta praetexta Reeve, 1849]. —
Tryon, G.W. 1882. Nassidae, Turbinellidae, Volutidae & Mitridae. Manual of Conchology. Philadelphia : G.W. Tryon Vol. 4. [94, pl. 28, fig. 96]
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Moluccas; Rottnest Island, WA, extending north, then eastward to Cooktown, north Queensland, Australia (WEAVER1970A), North West Cape to the North Kimberley, WA (Wilson1993B).
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Down to 90 m.
General References
Bail, P. 2000. Revision of the Family Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815. Xenophora. Association française de conchyliologie 89: 15-24 [21] (as three subspecies damonii Gray, 1864, reevei Sowerby, 1864 and ludbrookae Bail & Limpus, 1997)
Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [192,pl. 97, figs 1-9]
Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1967. A review of Amoria damoni Gray, 1864 and two species proposed for the homonyns Voluta bullata Swainson, 1828 and Voluta lineata Leach, 1814. Veliger 9(4): 382-387, pls 52, 53 [382] (A. keatsiana Ludbrook, 1953 is placed in the synonymy of A. damonii Gray, 1864)
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. [151, pls 64A-G, Map 12]
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [111,pl. 19, figs 10a-b, 11a-b, 12a-c]
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. [128,pl. 85] (figs 1a, 1b - Amoria damoni damoni, figs 1c, 1d- Amoria damoni keatsiana, fig. -1Amoria damoni reevei)
Common Name References
Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [168] (as Amoria keatsiana) (Damon's Volute, Gatliff's Volute)
Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [250] (as Amoria damonii keatsiana) (Port Keat's Volute)
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 |