WoRMS taxon details
Amoriinae Gray, 1857
AphiaID: 382341
AphiaID: 382341
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Volutidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Subfamily | |||||||
| Parent | Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815 | |||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Bail P. & Poppe G.T. 2001. A conchological iconography: a taxonomic introduction of the recent Volutidae. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 30 pp, 5 pl. (updated October 2008 for WoRMS) [details] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Tribe Amoriini Gray, 1857 Tribe Meloini Pilsbry & Olsson, 1954 Tribe Notovolutini Bail & Poppe, 2001 | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Note |
Diagnosis: Shells of various size, elongate to ovate, solid and marked in a wide range of rich color patterns. Protoconch multispiral, conical or dome-shaped, with whorls regularly coiled around the axis of the shell, with or without axial sculpture. Siphonal notch shallow. Fasciole distinct. Generally four strong columellar plaits. No operculum. [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382341 | |||||||
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| Citation: Bail, P. (2013). Amoriinae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382341 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||
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