Amalda australis

Amalda australis
	A shell of Amalda australis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Olivoidea
Family:	Olividae
Genus:	Amalda
Species:	A. australis
Binomial name
	Amalda australis; (Sowerby, 1830)
Synonyms
	Ancillaria australis G.B. Sowerby I, 1830 (original combination); Baryspira australis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1830);

Amalda australis, common name the southern olive, is a medium-sized sea snail, a gastropod mollusc of the family Olividae, the olives.^[1]

Distribution

This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.

^ Sartori, A.; Rosenberg, G. (2014). Amalda australis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1830). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=409967 on 2014-01-30

Sowerby G.B. I (1830). Species Conchylirum or concise original descriptions and accompanied by figures of all the species of Recent shells, with their varieties. G.B. Sowerby, London. page(s): Species 27, pl. 211, fig. 1,2
Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8

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