Ellatrivia

Genus of gastropods From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ellatrivia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.[1]

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Ellatrivia
Shell of Ellatrivia merces (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Triviidae
Genus: Ellatrivia
Cotton & Godfrey, 1932
Type species
Triviella merces Iredale, 1924
Synonyms[1]
  • Austrotrivia Fehse, 2002
  • Fossatrivia Schilder, 1939
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Nomenclature

Under Art. 13.1 of the ICZN Code, the name Ellatrivia is not available from Iredale (1931), because he did not provide a description.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Ellatrivia include:

  • Ellatrivia aequiflora (Laws, 1941)
  • Ellatrivia bipunctata (Odhner, 1917)
  • Ellatrivia caelatura (Hedley, 1918)
  • Ellatrivia cydarum (C. N. Cate, 1979)
  • Ellatrivia detavorai Fehse & Grego, 2010
  • Ellatrivia exmouthensis (C. N. Cate, 1979)
  • Ellatrivia kaiparaensis Laws, 1939
  • Ellatrivia merces (Iredale, 1924)
  • Ellatrivia oryzoidea (Iredale, 1935)
  • Ellatrivia zealandica (Kirk, 1882)
Species brought into synonymy
  • Ellatrivia memorata (Finlay, 1926): synonym of Ellatrivia merces (Iredale, 1924)

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