Rochia is a genus of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.[1]
| Rochia | |
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| Shell of Rochia nilotica (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Tegulidae |
| Genus: | Rochia Gray, 1857 |
| Type species | |
| Trochus acutangulus Anton, 1838 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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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
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- 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