Species Amoria jamrachi Gray, 1864

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• Amoria turneri jamrachi 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 [236].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1859.7.25.1, Enderby Island, Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indonesia; Northwestern Australia, as far east as Port Keats, NT and the southeastern islands of Indonesia (POPPE1992A), North West Cape to the North Kimberley, WA (Wilson1993B).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, intertidal flats, marine, mud-silt, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

20-35 m deep in its southern distribution; sand, mud and broken shells; collected intertidally at Pender Bay.

 

General References

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [197,pl. 95, figs 1-4]

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. [155, pls 65C, 65D]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [112,pl. 19, 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 4, 4a]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [249] (Jamrach'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