Amoria ellioti

Amoria ellioti
Apertural view of a shell of Amoria ellioti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Volutidae
Subfamily: Amoriinae
Genus: Amoria
Subgenus: Amoria
Species: A. ellioti
Binomial name
Amoria ellioti
(Sowerby II, 1864)
Synonyms
  • Amoria (Amoria) ellioti (G.B. Sowerby II, 1864)
  • Voluta ellioti G.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.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Northwest Australia.

References

  1. Amoria ellioti (Sowerby II, 1864).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 November 2012.

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