๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Rochia nilotica live?

Rochia nilotica has 6,181 records in 39 countries and territories, from 1884 to 2026. Most records come from French Polynesia.

Rochia nilotica
Rochia nilotica โ€” H. Zell / CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท source
AnimaliaMolluscaGastropodaTrochidaTegulidaeRochia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
French Polynesia 2,746
Wallis & Futuna 820
New Caledonia 527
Palau 446
Micronesia 318
Cook Islands 311
Papua New Guinea 157
Fiji 148
Australia 143
Indonesia 84
Philippines 79
Marshall Islands 73
Solomon Islands 69
Vanuatu 63
Japan 55
Thailand 23
Guam 21
Singapore 19
India 13
Malaysia 13
Tonga 8
China 5
Northern Mariana Islands 3
Christmas Island 2
Egypt 2
Israel 2
Kiribati 2
Myanmar 2
Tuvalu 2
Taiwan 2
ZZ 2
American Samoa 1
Hong Kong 1
Cambodia 1
Sri Lanka 1
Mauritius 1
Maldives 1
Mozambique 1
Vietnam 1

Related animals

Others in the family Tegulidae.

Pyram Top Shell
2,715 records
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.