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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, King Bank, Three Kings Islands and off Northland east coast
Notes:
Marine, Native - Non-endemic
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)

NZ Geographical Regions
Key to symbols used in Checklist.
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil
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