Species Amoria grayi Ludbrook, 1953
Gray's Volute
- Amoria grayi Ludbrook, N.H. 1953. Systematic revision of the volutid Genus Amoria. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 30: 131-153 [136, pl. 14, figs 4-5].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1952.3.21.1, Mouth of the Swan River, Western Australia. - Amoria kawamurai Habe, T. 1975. Three new volutid species (Mollusca) from Formosa and the Arafura Sea. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, Tokyo 1(4): 195-198, 1 plate [196, pl. 1, figs 3, 4].
Type data:
Holotype (listed as Kawamura Collection), Arafura Sea. - Voluta pallida Griffith, E. & Pidgeon, E. 1833. The Mollusca and Radiata. pp. 1–192 in Cuvier, G.L.C.F.D. (ed.). The Animal Kingdom. London : Whittaker & Co. Vol. 12 601 pp. 40 pls. [601, pl. 30, fig. 4] [non Voluta pallida Linnaeus, 1767].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH, no locality.
Distribution
States
Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Esperance to North Kimberley.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30)
Ecological Descriptors
Burrower, continental shelf, intertidal, intertidal flats, marine, sand, shallow subtidal, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Under sand on exposed tidal flats; from Shark Bay to Bunbury in the south, lives in 20-45 m; collected in the intertidal zone along the north coasts; In its northern distribution, is found on exposed tidal flats where tidal fluctuation is 2-3 fathoms.
General References
Ludbrook, N.H. 1958. The molluscan fauna of the Pliocene Strata underlying the Adelaide Plains, Part V - Gastropoda (Eratoidae to Scaphandridae). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 81: 43-111 [75]
Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [196,pl. 96, figs 1-7]
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 63H, 63I, 63J]
Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [112,pl. 19, figs 9a-e;pl. 21a, fig. 2a-b]
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 3, 3a, 3b, 3c]
Common Name References
Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [249] (Gray'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 |