Amoria canaliculata
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| Amoria canaliculata | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Amoria canaliculata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Volutidae |
| Genus: | Amoria |
| Species: | A. canaliculata |
| Binomial name | |
| Amoria canaliculata (McCoy, 1869) | |
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Amoria canaliculata, common name the caniculate volute, is a species of sea snail in the family Volutidae, the volutes.[1][2]
The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 70 mm.
(Original description) The shell is elongate-ovate with a short spire composed of 4–4.5 whorls, distinctly channeled at the suture. The columella bears four strong, subequal, oblique plaits, the most posterior of which extends into a ridge on the thickened anterior belt.
The shell is whitish and the body whorl displays five spiral rows of longitudinally elongate-oblong tawny spots, including one row at the suture.[3]
