Amoria jamrachii

Amoria jamrachii
	Apertural view of a shell of Amoria jamrachii (museum specimen at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
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. jamrachii
Binomial name
	Amoria jamrachii; Gray, 1864
Synonyms
	Amoria jamrachi Gray, 1864; Amoria (Amoria) jamrachi jamrachi Gray, 1864 · accepted, alternate representation; Amoria (Amoria) jamrachii Gray, 1864 · accepted, alternate representation; Amoria jamrachii jamrachi Gray, 1864 · accepted, alternate representation; Amoria turneri jamrachi Gray, 1864; Voluta jamrachi Gray; Voluta pallida Gray, 1845;

Amoria jamrachii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutidae, the volutes.^[1] It was named after Charles Jamrach, an animal dealer in London, by Dr. John Edward Gray, Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum.

Subspecies

Amoria jamrachi condei Bail & Limpus, 2001
Amoria jamrachi jamrachi Gray, 1864: represented as Amoria jamrachii Gray, 1864 (alternate representation)

The length of the shell varies between 45 mm and 70 mm.

This marine species occurs off Indonesia and 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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