| Rochia maxima | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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) | |
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Rochia maxima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Tegulidae.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Fiji Islands and Indo-Malaysia.
Description
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.
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.
References
- Koch, in Philippi; Abbild. u. Beschreib., Trochus, t. iv, f. 3. 1844.
- MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Rochia maxima (Koch, 1844). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1251283 on 2022-08-20
- Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506.
- Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
- Dr. von Martens, Ann. and Mag. N. H., 1869, p. 97
External links
- Philippi, R. A. (1842-1850). Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien unter Mithülfe mehrerer deutscher Conchyliologen. Cassel, T. Fischer: Vol. 1: 1-20
- Williams, S. T. (2012). Advances in molecular systematics of the vetigastropod superfamily Trochoidea. Zoologica Scripta. 41(6): 571-595
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Rochia maxima | |
| Tectus maximus | |