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Niveria

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Description

Niveria is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niveria, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2301918	https://www.gbif.org/species/2301918
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10183	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10183

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Triviidae : Niveria

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Triviidae : Niveria

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Velutinoidea	Gray 1840
family	Triviidae	Troschel 1863
subfamily	Triviinae	Troschel 1863
genus	Niveria	Jousseaume 1884

Scientific Name

Niveria Jousseaume, 1884

Name Published In

Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Niveria	subgenus	belongs to Pusula	stated with evidence	Schilder, 1939
Niveria	genus	belongs to Pusulini	stated with evidence	Vaught et al., 1989
Niveria	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Niveria	subgenus	belongs to Trivia	stated without evidence	Petuch and Roberts, 2007
Niveria	genus	belongs to Triviinae	stated with evidence	Fehse and Grego, 2014

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

7 (41%)

First Recorded Appearance

20.4 - 16.0 Ma
Miocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Triviidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Triviidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niveria

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Niveria (Niveria) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		10	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Niveria (Pseudotrivia) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Cypraea dimidiata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Cypraea permixta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria angliae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Niveria avellana species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	5.33 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Niveria avellanula ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	11.6 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Niveria bieleri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria brasilica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria campus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria carabus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria carlottae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria cherobia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria circumdata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria dimidiata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Niveria dorsolaevigata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		8	5.33 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene
Niveria fusca species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria galapagensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria guyana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria harriettae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria intuscrenata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria lathyrus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria leucosphaera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria liltvedi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria macaeica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria maltbiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria maugeriae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria nix species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria parvavellana ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		6	7.25 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Niveria permixta ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		4	5.33 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Niveria problematica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria pullata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria quadripunctata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		7	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Niveria rubescens species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria simonei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria suffusa species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		10	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Niveria werneri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Niveria xishaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trivia avellanula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trivia cypha species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Trivia sphaericulata ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	13.7 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Sulcotrivia Schilder, 1933	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Triviidae : *Sulcotrivia*
Circumscapula C.N.Cate, 1979	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Triviidae : *Circumscapula*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1884	Niveria Jousseaume
1939	Pusula (Niveria) Schilder p. 10
1989	Niveria Vaught et al.
2002	Niveria Sepkoski, Jr.
2007	Trivia (Niveria) Petuch and Roberts
2014	Niveria Fehse and Grego

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Vaught K. C.., Abbott R. T., et al (1989) , A classification of the living Mollusca, 1-195

Petuch E. J., Roberts C. E. (2007) , The geology of the Everglades and adjacent areas, 1-212

Fehse D., Grego J. (2014) , Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae. XXVIII. Revision of the genus Pusula Jousseaume, 1884 with the description of new genera and new species (Mollusca: Gastropoda), 1-144

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Jousseaume, F. (1884). Division des Cypraeidae. Le Naturaliste. 6(52): 414-415. - via World Register of Marine Species

Fehse D. & Grego J. (2014). Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae. XXVIII. Revision of the genus Pusula Jousseaume, 1884 with the description of new genera and new species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Published by the authors. 144 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 9 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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