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Species Amoria jamrachi Gray, 1864

Jamrach's Volute

 

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 (map not available)

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.

 

Common Name References

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

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
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