Amoria dampieria
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| Shell of Amoria dampieria (specimen at the Natural History Museum Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Amoria |
| Species: | A. dampieria
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| Binomial name | |
| Amoria dampieria Weaver, 1960
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Amoria dampieria, common name the Dampier's volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 33 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
References
[edit]- ^ Amoria dampieria Weaver, 1960. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 November 2012.
- Weaver, C.S. (1960). "Hawaiian scientific expedition finds rare Western Australian Volutes". Hawaiian Shell News. 12 (8): 1–3.
- 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
- 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.
- Bail P. & Limpus A. (2001) The genus Amoria. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds) A conchological iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 50 pp., 93 pls
External links
[edit]- Weaver, C.S. (1963). "Redescription of Amoria dampieria Weaver, 1960 (Gastropoda: Volutidae)". Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia. 1 (7): 28–31. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
- "Amoria dampieria". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.