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Taxonomy
Family:
TRIVIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Triviidae (Family)
> Trivirostra (Genus)
> oryza (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cypraea intermedia Kiener, 1844
=Cypraea oryza Lamarck, 1810
=Trivia oryza (Lamarck, 1810)
Images: Trivirostra oryza (Lamarck, 1810)
Dead in shell-sand, off Poor Knights Islands, Northland, NZ. 6mm. K.W.Burch Collection
Taxonomy
Family:
TRIVIIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Gastropoda (Class)
> Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
> Littorinimorpha (Order)
> Cypraeoidea (Superfamily)
> Triviidae (Family)
> Trivirostra (Genus)
> oryza (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Cypraea intermedia Kiener, 1844
=Cypraea oryza Lamarck, 1810
=Trivia oryza (Lamarck, 1810)
Details: Trivirostra oryza (Lamarck, 1810)
Size/Grows to:
Length 11mm
Distribution:
Widely distributed throughout the tropical Indo-West Pacific region. Australia and Kermadec Islands. Off Northland east coast
Geographical Range:
KA
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28 (p.219)
  • Gardner, N.W. May/1980 Trivirostra oryza (Lamarck) - Another New Record for New Zealand, Poirieria, 10(5) (p.77)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
E =
Endemic
I =
Introduced
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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