Amoria (gastropod)

See text Amoria is a taxonomic genus of medium-sized predatory marine gastropod in the subfamily Amoriinae, belonging to the family Volutidae.

[1] Amoria are found in onshore and offshore waters around the entire coast of Australia.

Amoria have a small, smooth, more or less pointed conical protoconch, a solid very glossy, fusiform shell and an elongate aperture with 4 distinct, more or less developed columellar plicae.

Judging from anatomical features, Amoria are close to the genus Cymbiola from which they descended in the Tertiary.

Cymbiola are related to Tethyan species of the Late Miocene of Indonesia, Java.