Amoria grayi

Amoria grayi
Apertural view of a shell of Amoria grayi
Scientific classification
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, commonly named Gray's volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes. ^[1]

Amoria gray is a replacement name for Voluta pallidaGray, 1834, non Linnaeus, 1767

Subspecies

• Amoria grayi grayi Ludbrook, 1953
• Amoria grayi kawamurai Habe, 1975
• Amoria grayi whitworthi Bail & Limpus, 2001

Description

The shell of Amoria grayi is smooth, glossy, and typically wide with a pointed spire and a narrow gap, often displaying pale cream or pinkish tones with faint axial banding that distinguishes it from related volutes and the length of the shell varies between 45 and 130 mm (1.8 and 5.1 in). ^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Western Australia and the Northern Territory, Australia.

References

1. Amoria grayi Ludbrook, 1953 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 7 November 2012.
2. "MolluscaBase - Amoria (Amoria) exoptanda (Reeve, 1849)". www.molluscabase.org. Retrieved 30 October 2025.

• 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.

External links

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