Trivia (gastropod)
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| Seven shells of Trivia monacha from beach drift near Aberffraw, Anglesey. Scale is in cm. |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Velutinoidea |
| Family: | Triviidae |
| Genus: |
Trivia Broderip, 1837 |
| Type species | |
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Trivia arctica (Pulteney, 1799) |
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| Species | |
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Trivia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Triviidae, the trivias.
These are known in Britain as "cowries". The shell of these species does superficially resemble the shell of a very small cowry, 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, Triviella, Trivirostra etc., but this information is not yet shown completely in the species list below. There is currently no consensus about definition of the genera backed by a reliable phylogenetic scheme, for which reason all European species in the ERMS context are maintained under genus Trivia, around the type species Trivia arctica.
Species within the genus Trivia include, according to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
Species named in other databases :
European species: Trivia arctica, T. candidula, T. monacha and T. multirilata
Western Atlantic species with updated genera: [1]
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