Species Amoria ellioti (Sowerby, 1864)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta ellioti Sowerby, G.B. (2nd) 1864. Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby Vol. 3 269-275, pls 11-12. [272, pl. 11, figs 126-127].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 1952.3.24.2, Port Hedland, Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Amoria ellioti (Sowerby, 1864). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [111, pl. 19, figs 1a-c]

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Onslow to Port Hedland.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, intertidal flats, marine, sand, sand flats, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

Collected at low tide on sand flats.

 

General References

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [194,pl. 92, figs 1-3]

Sowerby, G.B. 1864. Descriptions of three new shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 1864: 3 pp. [338] (as Voluta ellioti)

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. [153, pls 63A, 63B]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [111,pl. 19, figs 1a-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, fig. 7]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [247] (Elliot'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