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NarrativeWikipediaarticle
Traits & measurements1 literature sources6 traits
Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS312 records
01Narrative
Architectonica maxima, common name giant sundial, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Architectonicidae, which are known as the staircase shells or sundials. Shells of Architectonica maxima
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy50% within 1 km
≤100 m 1>10 km 1
2 georeferenced · 117 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor119
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy39% within 1 km
≤100 m 8≤1 km 16≤10 km 17>10 km 20
61 georeferenced · 125 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence186
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions10 of 30 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
Washington, US
30
Auckland, NZ
13
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territorylocation not on record
10
Philadelphia, US
8
KwaZulu-Natal Museumlocation not on record
8
Cambridge, US
6
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
4
Sydney, AU
3
Brussels, BE
3
NTNU-VMlocation not on record
3
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record
3
Gifu prefectural Museumlocation not on record
3
Museums Victorialocation not on record
2
ELMClocation not on record
2
Toyohashi Museum Of Natural Historylocation not on record
2
Toyama, JP
2
QVMAGlocation not on record
2
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record
2
Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record
1
Denver, US
1
Nishinomiya Shell Museumlocation not on record
1
Parthenon Tama History Museumlocation not on record
1
Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record
1
Tomioka, JP
1
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record
1
Frankfurt am Main
1
Chongqing Museumlocation not on record
1
DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record
1
Paleontological Research Institutionlocation not on record
1
Yokosuka City Museumlocation not on record
1
30 institutions · 118 of 186 vouchered records shown · 1 without an institution code
