Trivirostra hyalina
Appearance
Trivirostra hyalina | |
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Shell of Trivirostra hyalina (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Triviidae |
Genus: | Trivirostra |
Species: | T. hyalina
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Binomial name | |
Trivirostra hyalina | |
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Trivirostra hyalina is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias. They are white in colour.[2]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 4 mm.
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Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off the Philippines
References
[edit]- Fehse D. (2002) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) V. Kritische Beurteilung der Genera und Beschreibung einer neuen Art der Gattung Semitrivia Cossmann, 1903. Acta Conchyliorum 6: 3-48.
- Fehse D. & Grego J. (2009) Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). X. The Triviidae from the Red Sea with a description of a new genus Purpurcapsula and a new species in the genus Trivirostra Jousseaume, 1884. Visaya 2(5): 18–79,