African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Rochia virgata (Gmelin, 1791)

AfReMaS taxon details

Rochia virgata (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

1554954 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1554954)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Rochia J. E. Gray, 1857

Original name

Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Tectus virgatus (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted

Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3580, no. 83. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Rochia virgata (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1554954 on 2026-08-11

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Rochia virgata (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1554954 on 2026-08-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2021-12-29 09:52:53Z

created

Dekker, Henk

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original description (of Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3580, no. 83. [details]

new combination reference Alf, A. (2021). Was wissen wir über die Tegulidae?. <em>Club Conchylia Mitteilungen.</em> 38: 49-60., available online at http://www.club-conchylia.de/ccmitt/mitt38.pdf
page(s): 50 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Tectus virgatus (Gmelin, 1791))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications) (from synonym Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tectus virgatus) (from synonym Tectus virgatus (Gmelin, 1791))
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 13 proteins) (from synonym Tectus virgatus (Gmelin, 1791))
To Malacopics (Rochia virgata (Gmelin, 1791) Egypt, Janub Sina’, Gulf of Aqaba, Na'ama, on reef, a...

Unreviewed

To Malacopics (Rochia virgata (Gmelin, 1791) Egypt, Janub Sina’, Gulf of Aqaba, Na'ama, on reef, a...

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