Amoria turneri, common name Turner's volute, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.
The following subspecies have been brought into synonymy: Amoria turneri broderipi Gray, 1864 accepted as Amoria turneri (Gray in Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834) Amoria turneri cumingi Gray, 1864 accepted as Amoria praetexta (Reeve, 1849) Amoria turneri damonii Gray, 1864 accepted as Amoria damonii Gray, 1864 Amoria turneri jamrachi Gray, 1864 accepted as Amoria jamrachi Gray, 1864
Description The length of the shell varies between 40 mm and 80 mm.
Amoria turneri possesses a solid, white shell adorned with regular, relatively broad brown lines. These lines are oriented obliquely to the shell's axis. Distinct sutural spots are also present. The spire is smooth, conical, and terminates in an acute apex.
Distribution This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia; in the Arafura Sea and off New Guinea.
References
Cotton, B.C. 1949. Australian Recent and Tertiary Mollusca, Family Volutidae. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 9(2): 181-196 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. Hinton, A. 1972. Shells of New Guinea and the central Indo-Pacific. Milton : Jacaranda Press xviii 94 pp. Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y. 1992. Volutes. Ancona : L'Informatore Piceno 348 pp., pl. 1-107. Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. Bail, P & Poppe, G. T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. Hackenheim-Conchbook, 30 pp, 5 pl. Bail P. & Limpus A. (2001) The genus Amoria. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds) A conchological iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 50 pp., 93 pls.
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