Species Amoria zebra (Leach, 1814)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta zebra Leach, W.E. 1814. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 1 144 pp. 60 pls. [31, pl. 12, fig. 1].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH Broderip No. 121, Broken Bay, New South Wales (Australia).
• Voluta lineata Leach, W.E. 1814. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals. London : E. Nodder & Son Vol. 1 144 pp. 60 pls. [31, pl. 12, fig. 2] [non Voluta lineata Gmelin, 1791].

  Type data:

   Neotype BMNH 1952.3.21.2, Queensland, Australia.
• Zebramoria lineatiana 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 [386, pl. 53, figs 15-16].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1952.3.21.2, Queensland, Australia.
• Marginella radiata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1822. Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres. Paris : J.B. Lamarck Vol. 7 711 pp. [356].
• Voluta stragulata Megerle, M. von 1829. Title unknown. p. 11, pl. 217, fig. 3033 in Schubert, G.H. & Wagner, A.J. (eds). Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, angefangen von Martini und Chemnitz, fortgesetzt. Nürnberg : Bauer und Raspe Vol. 12. [11, pl. 217, fig. 3033].

 

Generic Combinations

• Zebramoria zebra (Leach, 1814). —
  Iredale, T. 1929. Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 17(4): 157-189, pls 38-41 [180] (New combination)
• Scaphella zebra (Leach, 1814). —
  Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [362] (New combination)
• Amoria zebra (Leach, 1814). —
  Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [114, pl. 20, figs 3a-f]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Zebramoria lineata auct. [new combination]. —
  Rippingale, O.H. & McMichael, D.F. 1961. Queensland and Great Barrier Reef shells. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 210 pp. [116, pl. 15, fig. 10]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Gulf of Carpentaria to Eden, New South Wales.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, intertidal, marine, shallow subtidal, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 54 m.

 

General References

McMichael, D.F. 1964. Notes on the genera Amoria Gray, 1855, and Zebramoria Iredale, 1924, (Gastropoda: Volutidae), with description of new species. Records of the Australian Museum 26: 265-274 [271] (as Zebramoria lineata)

Poppe, G.T. 1986. A novel species and a novel subspecies of Volutidae from Northwestern Australia. Apex 1(1): 27-32, pls 1-3 [29]

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [203,pl. 91, figs 1-9]

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. [164, pls 67, 68, 71D-G]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [114,pl. 20, fig. 3a-f]

 

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] (Zebra 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