- Trivia (genus)
Taxobox
name = "Trivia"
image_caption = "Trivia monacha" shells collected in beach drift nearAberffraw ,Anglesey
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Gastropoda
subclassis =Orthogastropoda
superordo =Caenogastropoda
ordo =Sorbeoconcha
subordo =Hypsogastropoda
infraordo =Littorinimorpha
superfamilia =Velutinoidea
familia =Triviidae
genus = "Trivia"
genus_authority = Broderip, 1837
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text."Trivia" is a
genus of small seasnail s, marinegastropod mollusc s in the familyTriviidae , the trivias.These are known in Britain as "cowries". The shells do superficially resemble those of small ribbed cowries, but "Trivia" species are not very closely related to true
cowries .The genus "Trivia" has recently been split into many genera, including "Cleotrivia", "Niveria", "Pusula", "Trivirostra" etc, but this information is not yet shown in the species list below.
hell description
Shells of this genus are mostly small, oval or rounded, of
cowry -shape, with the outer lip incurved to form a narrow denticulate aperture.The sculpture is of transverse ribs which are sometimes interrupted by a dorsal groove.
pecies within the genus "Trivia"
* "
Trivia antillarum " Schilder, 1922 - Antilles trivia
* "Trivia arctica " (Pulteney, 1799) - Unspotted cowrie/Grotted-Buckie
* "Trivia californiana " (Gray, 1827) - California trivia
* "Trivia candidula " Gaskoin, 1835 - Little white trivia
* "Trivia maltbiana " Schwengel and McGinty, 1942
* "Trivia merces " (Iredale 1924) - New Zealand cowry
* "Trivia monacha " (da Costa, 1778) - Spotted cowrie
* "Trivia multilirata " (Sowerby, 1870)
* "Trivia nix " (Schilder, 1922) - Snowy trivia
* "Trivia pediculus " (Linnaeus, 1758) - Coffeebean trivia
* "Trivia quadripunctata " (Gray, 1827) - Four-spot trivia
* "Trivia ritteri " Raymond, 1903
* "Trivia solandri " (Sowerby, 1832) - Solander's trivia
* "Trivia suffusa " (Gray, 1832) - Pink triviaThe species "Trivia arctica", "candidula", "monacha" and "multirilata" are present in the seas around
Europe .References
*
* Powell A. W. B., "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
* Glen Pownall, "New Zealand Shells and Shellfish", Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand1979 ISBN 85467-054-8
* Sea Slug Forum [http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=triviidae]
* Malacolog list of western Atlantic species [http://www.malacolog.org/wasp.php?mode=taxon&target=Triviidae]
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