Niveria

Niveria
Niveria suffusa shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Cypraeoidea
Family: Triviidae
Genus: Niveria
Jousseaume, 1884[1]
Type species
Cypraea nivea Sowerby, 1832
Synonyms[2]
  • Circumscapula Cate, 1979
  • Sulcotrivia Schilder, 1933

Niveria is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.[2]

  1. ^ Jousseaume F. P. (1884). Bull. Soc. zool. France 9: 100.
  2. ^ a b Niveria Jousseaume, 1884. Gofas, S. (2010). Niveria Jousseaume, 1884. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391519 on 18 March 2011 .