Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Velutinoidea > Family Triviidae

Trivia J. E. Gray, 1837

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

note: There is currently no consensus about definition of the genera backed by a reliable phylogenetic scheme, for which reason all European species in the ERMS context are maintained under genus Trivia, around the type species Trivia arctica

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Trivia (Trivia)*	Gray, 1837	synonym

Children

Trivia (Trivia) hispania C. N. Cate, 1979
Trivia arctica (Pulteney, 1799)
Trivia candidula (Gaskoin, 1836)
Trivia corsica Fehse, Grego, Manousis & Dieste, 2024
Trivia levantina Smriglio, Mariottini & Buzzurro, 1998
Trivia mediterranea (Risso, 1826)
Trivia merlini Fehse & Van de Haar, 2015
Trivia mollerati Locard, 1894
Trivia monacha (da Costa, 1778)
Trivia multilirata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
Trivia pura Fehse & Grego, 2021
Trivia virginea Fehse & Grego, 2021

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: koffieboontje

Literature

original description	Broderip W.J. (1837). Cypraeidae, pp. 254–259, In: C. Knight (ed.), The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge. C. Knight, London. Vol. 8, 510 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Trivia J. E. Gray, 1837. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138582