Species Amoria guttata McMichael, 1964

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amoria guttata 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 [268, pl. 28].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.63998 dry, Great Barrier Reef, south of Cairns, Queensland, Australia [17°10'1.2'S,146°15'0'E].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, sand, sand.

Extra Ecological Information

36-160 m.

 

General References

Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. [196,pl. 101, figs 3-6]

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. [154, pls 65G, 65H]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [112,pl. 20, fig. 2]

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. [132,pl. 88, fig. 4]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [285] (Blushing 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