''Rochia'' is a
genus
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of
sea snail, a
marine gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
in the
family
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Tegulidae.
[MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Rochia Gray, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1251278 on 2022-04-25]
Species
* ''
Rochia conus''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''
Rochia elata''
(Lamarck, 1822)
* ''
Rochia hirasei''
(Pilsbry, 1904)
* ''
Rochia magnifica''
(Poppe, 2004)
* ''
Rochia maxima''
(Koch, 1844)
* ''
Rochia nilotica''
(Linnaeus, 1767)
* ''
Rochia virgata''
(Gmelin, 1791)
;Synonyms:
* ''Rochia acutangula''
(Anton, 1838): synonym of ''Rochia conus''
(Gmelin, 1791)
* ''Rochia maximus''
(Koch, 1844): synonym of ''Rochia maxima''
(Koch, 1844) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
* ''Rochia niloticus''
(Linnaeus, 1767): synonym of ''Rochia nilotica''
(Linnaeus, 1767) (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
References
External links
Gray, J. E. (1857). Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum. Part I. [Gastropoda British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp">astropoda">Gray, J. E. (1857). Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum. Part I. [Gastropoda
British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp
Gray, J. E. (1842). Molluscs. Pp. 48-92, in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, edition 44. British Museum. London. iv + 308 p.Williams, S. T. (2012). Advances in molecular systematics of the vetigastropod superfamily Trochoidea. Zoologica Scripta. 41(6): 571-595
Tegulidae
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