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.

This marine species occurs off Northwest Australia.

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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