Amoria canaliculata

Amoria canaliculata
Apertural view of a shell of Amoria canaliculata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Amoria
Species:	A. canaliculata
Binomial name
Amoria canaliculata (McCoy, 1869)
Synonyms [1]
Amoria (Amoria) canaliculata (McCoy, 1869) Voluta (Amoria) canaliculata McCoy, 1869 (basionym) Voluta harfordi(Cox, 1869)

Amoria canaliculata, common name the caniculate volute, is a species of sea snail in the family Volutidae, the volutes. ^{[1] [2]}

Description

The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 70 mm.

(Original description) The shell is elongate-ovate with a short spire composed of 4–4.5 whorls, distinctly channeled at the suture. The columella bears four strong, subequal, oblique plaits, the most posterior of which extends into a ridge on the thickened anterior belt.

The shell is whitish and the body whorl displays five spiral rows of longitudinally elongate-oblong tawny spots, including one row at the suture. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Queensland, East Australia. ^[2]

References

1. Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O (eds.). "Amoria canaliculata (McCoy, 1869)". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 4 February 2025.
2. "Species Amoria canaliculata (McCoy, 1869)". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
3. McCoy [M'Coy], F. (1869). "On a new volute". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Fourth series. 4 (34). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Bail P. & Limpus A. (2001) The genus Amoria. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds) A conchological iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 50 pp., 93 pls.
• 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.

External links

• Cox, J.C. (1869). "On three new species of Australian marine shells". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1869 (358–359): 358. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
• "Amoria canaliculata canaliculata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
• Media related to Amoria canaliculata at Wikimedia Commons