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Trivia

Gastropoda - Triviidae

Taxonomy

Trivia was named by Broderip (1837) [Sepkoski's age data: ]. It is the type genus of Triviidae, Triviinae.

It was reranked as Cypraea (Trivia) by McCoy (1867).

It was assigned to Cypraea by McCoy (1867); to Cypraeidae by Gardner (1947) and Gardner (1948); to Eratoidae by Ladd (1977), Ward and Blackwelder (1987) and Wienrich (2001); to Triviidae by Todd (2001); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); and to Triviinae by Troschel (1863), Abbott (1974), Wilson (1993) and Fehse and Grego (2006).

Species lacking formal opinion data

T. sanguinea

Synonyms

Sulcotrivia was named by Schilder (1933) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol-l R]. It is extant.

It was reranked as Trivia (Sulcotrivia) by Mandic et al. (2002); it was synonymized subjectively with Trivia by Landau and Fehse (2004).

It was assigned to Trivia by Mandic et al. (2002); and to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1837	Trivia Broderip
1863	Trivia Troschel
1867	Cypraea (Trivia) McCoy p. 436
1933	Sulcotrivia Schilder
1947	Trivia Gardner p. 542
1948	Trivia Gardner p. 214
1974	Trivia Abbott p. 147
1977	Trivia Ladd p. 17
1987	Trivia Ward and Blackwelder p. 131
1993	Trivia Wilson p. 209
2001	Trivia Todd
2001	Trivia Wienrich p. 423
2002	Trivia (Sulcotrivia) Mandic et al. p. 300
2002	Sulcotrivia Sepkoski
2002	Trivia Sepkoski
2006	Trivia Fehse and Grego p. 89

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
superfamily	Cypraeoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Triviidae	Troschel 1863
subfamily	Triviinae	Troschel 1863
genus	Trivia	Broderip 1837

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Trivia Broderip 1837

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Subg. Trivia (Dolichupis) Iredale 1930

†Dolichupis clypeus Dolin 1991

Dolichupis producta Gaskoin 1836

Dolichupis ritteri Raymond 1903

Pusula (Dolichupis) smithi Martin 1884

Subg. Trivia (Trivia) Broderip 1837

†Trivia (Trivia) antiquosphaera Sacco 1894

†Trivia (Trivia) coccinelloides de Sowerby 1823

Trivia (Trivia) europaea Montfort 1808

Invalid names: Cypraea coccinella Lamarck 1811 [synonym], Trivia jousseaumei Locard 1887 [synonym]