Amoria grayi

Amoria grayi
	Apertural view of a shell of Amoria grayi
Scientific classification
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
	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

Subspecies

The length of the shell varies between 45 and 130 mm (1.8 and 5.1 in).

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

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.

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