Amoria ellioti

Amoria ellioti
Apertural view of a shell of Amoria ellioti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Volutidae
Genus:	Amoria
Species:	A. ellioti
Binomial name
Amoria ellioti (G.B. Sowerby II, 1864)
Synonyms
Amoria (Amoria) ellioti(G.B. Sowerby II, 1864) Voluta elliotiG.B. Sowerby II, 1864 (original combination)

Amoria ellioti, common name the Elliot's volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 50 mm and 110 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The solid shell is spindle-shaped with slightly angular edges. The spire has a pale yellowish color, adorned with wavy longitudinal stripes or bands of red. The spire is short and ends in an irregularly papillose apex. The whorls are slightly inflated, and the sutures between them are white and raised.

The aperture of the shell is subangulosa at the back and narrow in the front. The outer lip is slightly thickened but not expanded. The columella (the inner lip of the aperture) is thickened at the front and has four oblique folds. ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Western Australia.

References

1. Amoria ellioti (Sowerby II, 1864) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 6 November 2012.
2. Sowerby, G.B. II (1864). Completion of the late G. B. Sowerby's monographs of the genus Voluta, from Thes. p. 220, plate 55, and Melo, p. 416, plate 83. By his son. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.). London: privately published. pp. 269–275. Retrieved 2 February 2025. 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.
• 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.

External links

• "Amoria ellioti". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 15 January 2019.