Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Velutinoidea > Family Triviidae > Subfamily Triviinae > Genus Trivia

Trivia monacha (da Costa, 1778)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Trivia*	Gray, 1837	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Cypraea monacha*	da Costa, 1778	basionym
*Cypraea coccinella*	Lamarck, 1811	synonym
*Cypraea europaea*	Montagu, 1808	synonym
*Cypraea europaea var. tripunctata*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883	synonym
*Cypraea monacha*	da Costa, 1778	synonym
*Trivia acuminata*	Schilder, 1932	synonym
*Trivia jousseaumei*	Locard, 1886	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gevlekt koffiebontje; gevlekt koffieboontje sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;de Bruyne, R.H. (1991). Schelpen van de Nederlandse kust [Shells of the Dutch coast]. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij/KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5107-017-9. III, 165 pp.

English: spotted cowrie sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English-United States: Spotted Cowrie sources: Charles Hussey

German: Europäische Kauri

Literature

original description	Da Costa E. M. (1778). Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae. London: Millan, White, Elmsley & Robson XII + 254 + VIII p., 17 pl:
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Marine Life Information Network - UK
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Trivia monacha. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141744