Amoria grayi (original) (raw)
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Species of gastropod
| Amoria grayi | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Amoria grayi | |
Scientific classification  |
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Amoria |
| Species: | A. grayi |
| Binomial name | |
| **Amoria grayi**Ludbrook, 1953 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
| Amoria grayi Ludbrook, 1953_Amoria turneri_ Gray, 1855_Voluta pallida_ Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834 |
Amoria grayi, common name Gray's volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
This is a replacement name for Voluta pallida Gray, 1834, non Linnaeus, 1767
- Amoria grayi grayi Ludbrook, 1953
- Amoria grayi kawamurai Habe, 1975
- Amoria grayi whitworthi Bail & Limpus, 2001
The length of the shell varies between 45 and 130 mm (1.8 and 5.1 in).
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This marine species occurs off Western Australia and the Northern Territory, Australia.
- ^ a b Amoria grayi Ludbrook, 1953. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 7 November 2012.
- Ludbrook, N.H. (1953). "Systematic revision of the volutid genus Amoria". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 30: 136.
- Bail P. & Limpus A. (2001) The genus Amoria. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds) A conchological iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 50 pp., 93 pls.
- Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107.
- 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.
- Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.
- 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.
- "Amoria grayi". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.