| Rochia maxima | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Tegulidae |
| Genus: | Rochia |
| Species: | R. maxima |
| Binomial name | |
| Rochia maxima (Koch in Philippi, 1844) [1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Rochia maxima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae. [2] [3]
This marine species occurs off the Fiji Islands and Indo-Malaysia.
The height of the shell attains 95 mm, its diameter also 95 mm. The shell is less ponderous than Tectus niloticus . Its form is strictly conical. The whorls of the spire are decidedly plicate or tuberculate, planulate. The body whorl is not dilated at the periphery. The flat base is concentrically grooved. The columella is less oblique than in the type. [4]
This species was first considered an arrested or primitive form of Tectus niloticus, as in the conic form, flat, lirate base, and sculptured spire, it exactly resembles an immature specimen of the latter species. But in 1869 Dr. von Martens considered them different species. [5]
Turbinidae, the turban snails, are a family of small to large marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Trochoidea.
Diloma is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Stomatellinae is a subfamily of small sea snails with a brilliantly nacreous interior of the shell, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Modelia granosa, common name the southern cat's eye, is a medium to large species of sea snail which has a shell with a pearly interior and a calcareous operculum. It is a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
Lischkeia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eucyclidae.
Cinysca is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Areneidae.
Tegula rustica is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Rochia conus, common name the cone top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Rochia nilotica, common name the commercial top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Tectus pyramis, common name the pyram top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.
Rochia virgata, common name the striped top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Agathistoma viridulum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Tectus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Tegulidae.
Spectamen philippense is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Solariellidae.
Monilea is a genus of sea snails in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Bayerotrochus tangaroanus, or Tangaroan slit shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pleurotomariidae.
Tectus fenestratus, common name the fenestrate top shell or the latticed top shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Trochus tentorium is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Tegula pellisserpentis, common name the serpent-tongue tegula, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Rochia is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
