Species Amoria turneri (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta turneri 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. 40, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1952.3.21.4, Torres Strait, northern Queensland, Australia.
• Amoria turneri broderipi 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] [non Voluta broderipii Griffith & Pidgeon].
• Amoria newmanae Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertairy Mollusca, Family Volutidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 181-196 [192, pl. 13].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D.14226, North Western Australia.

 

Generic Combinations

• Amoria turneri (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [113, pl. 19, figs 6a-b]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Papua New Guinea, Moluccas, Arafura Sea (Australia).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, sand, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

From 9 m; to 45 m; occasionally found intertidally.

 

General References

Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. [58] (as Amoria turneri)

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [202,pl. 93, figs 1-2, 6-7; pl. 94, figs 5-6]

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. [158, pls 66A, 66B, 66C]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [113]

 

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. [169] (Turner'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