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Niveria suffusa

Gastropoda - Triviidae

Taxonomy
Cypraea suffusa was named by Gray (1827) [DISTRIBUTION: Neogene-Recent; circum-Caribbean.]. It is extant.

It was recombined as Trivia suffusa by Maury (1917) and Jung (1971); it was recombined as Pusula (Niveria) suffusa by Schilder (1939); it was recombined as Niveria (Niveria) suffusa by Schilder and Schilder (1971); it was misspelled as Niveria suffosa by Kittle and Portell (2010); it was recombined as Niveria suffusa by Perrilliat and Flores-Guerrero (2011).

Synonyms
  • Trivia floridana was named by Olsson and Harbison (1953). It is a 3D body fossil.

    It was recombined as Niveria (Niveria) suffusa floridana by Schilder (1971); it was synonymized subjectively with Niveria suffusa by Perrilliat and Flores-Guerrero (2011).
  • Pusula jamaicensis was named by Schilder (1932). It is a 3D body fossil.

    It was recombined as Pusula (Niveria) suffusa jamaicensis by Schilder (1939); it was recombined as Niveria (Niveria) jamaicensis by Cate (1977); it was synonymized subjectively with Niveria suffusa by Rosenberg (2005).
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1827Cypraea suffusa Gray pp. 370-371
1917Trivia suffusa Maury p. 117
1932Pusula jamaicensis Schilder p. 95
1939Pusula (Niveria) suffusa Schilder p. 10
1939Pusula (Niveria) suffusa jamaicensis Schilder p. 10
1953Trivia floridana Olsson and Harbison
1971Trivia suffusa Jung p. 180
1971Niveria (Niveria) suffusa floridana Schilder
1971Niveria (Niveria) suffusa Schilder and Schilder p. 20
1977Niveria (Niveria) jamaicensis Cate p. 48
2010Niveria suffosa Kittle and Portell
2011Niveria suffusa Perrilliat and Flores-Guerrero p. 386

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classGastropoda
subclassCaenogastropoda(Cox 1959)
RankNameAuthor
—Sorbeoconcha(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—Hypsogastropoda(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorderLatrogastropodaRiedel 2000
superfamilyCypraeoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyTriviidaeTroschel 1863
subfamilyTriviinaeTroschel 1863
genusNiveriaJousseaume 1884
speciessuffusa(Gray 1827)

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.

Niveria suffusa Gray 1827
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Invalid names: Niveria jamaicensis Schilder 1932 [synonym], Trivia floridana Olsson and Harbison 1953 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitec
Locomotion: actively mobilef
Life habit: epifaunalf
Diet: carnivoref
Vision: limitedc
Created: 2009-09-10 08:02:03
Modified: 2009-09-10 10:02:03
Source: f = family, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009

Age range: base of the Tortonian to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 11.62000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (9 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Grenada Trivia suffusa (58674)
Tortonian11.62 - 7.246Dominican Republic Trivia suffusa (58817)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Venezuela Trivia suffusa (131363)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Mexico (Veracruz) Niveria suffusa (134768)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (North Carolina) Trivia floridana (58897)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781USA (Florida) Trivia floridana (41501) Trivia suffusa, Trivia floridana (79331)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Cuba Trivia suffusa (66768)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117USA (Florida) Niveria suffosa (96538)