OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database
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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae
Amoria praetexta (Reeve, 1849)
Type of listing: Name in current use
Synonymy
Voluta praetexta Reeve, 1849
Amoria turneri cumingi Gray, 1864
Common Name
Juvenile Volute p.255, pl.700 Coleman, N. 1975.
Distribution
Arafura Sea and WA between North West Cape and the North Kimberley
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: N coast
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: NW coast
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Australia (N): Western Australia
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Australia (N): Arafura Sea
ABRS Regions: Australia: Western Australia
ABRS Regions: Australia: 200 m bathymetric: Gulf of Carp.
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Indonesia?
OBIS Regions: Tropical Indo-West Pacific: Indo-Malaysia: Australia (N): Northern Territory
ABRS Regions: Australia: Northern Territory
Keywords
depth: continental shelf [ to 45 m {POPPE1992A}
]
depth: continental shelf
depth: subtidal
substrate: sand [
]
References
Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. p.200, pl. 94, figs. 1-4 [ synonymy, distribution, habitat, description and remarks
] General reference
Weaver, C.S. & du Pont, J.E. 1970. p.157, pls. 65E, 65F [ synonymy, type information, distribution, habitat, description, animal and radula and remarks
] General reference
Wilson, B. 1994. p.113 [ description, distribution, habitat and synonymy
] General reference
Classification
Animalia
Mollusca
Conchifera
Visceroconcha
Gastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Sorbeoconcha
Hypsogastropoda
Neogastropoda
Volutoidea
Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
Cymbiolinae Bondarev, 1995
Amoria Gray, 1855
Amoria praetexta (Reeve, 1849)
Metadata
Taxon name record (intBiotaID=12171) created by Playpus Export Program on 2000-11-09. Record last updated by dsherman on 2004-02-04.