Niveria

Niveria
Niveria pediculus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Velutinoidea
Family:	Triviidae
Subfamily:	Triviinae
Genus:	Niveria Jousseaume, 1884[1]
Type species
Cypraea nivea G.B. Sowerby I, 1832
Synonyms
Circumscapula Cate, 1979 † Sulcotrivia Schilder, 1933

Niveria is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.^[2]

Species

Species within the genus Niveria include:

• Niveria brasilica Fehse & Grego, 2005^[3]
• Niveria campus (Cate, 1979)
• Niveria carabus (Cate, 1979)
• Niveria cherobia (Cate, 1979)
• Niveria circumdata (Schilder, 1931)
• Niveria fusca (Sowerby II, 1832)
• Niveria galapagensis (Melvill, 1900)
• Niveria harriettae Fehse & Grego, 2010^[4]
• Niveria lathyrus (Blainville, 1826)
• Niveria liltvedi (Gofas, 1984)
• Niveria macaeica (Fehse & Grego, 2005)^[5]
• Niveria maltbiana (Schwengel & McGinty, 1942)
• Niveria maugeriae (G.B. Sowerby II, 1832)
• Niveria nix (Schilder, 1922)^[6]
• Niveria pacifica (Sowerby II, 1832)
• Niveria problematica (Schilder, 1931)
• Niveria quadripunctata (Gray, 1827)^[7]
• Niveria rubescens (Gray, 1833)
• Niveria sanguinea (Sowerby II, 1832)
• Niveria spongicola (Monterosato, 1923)
• Niveria suffusa (Gray, 1827)^[8]
• Niveria werneri Fehse, 1999^[9]
• Niveria xishaensis Ma, 1997

Species brought into synonymy 

• Niveria aquatanica Cate, 1979: synonym of Niveria nix (Schilder, 1922)
• Niveria colettae Fehse, 1999:^[10] synonym of Cleotrivia coletteae (Fehse, 1999)
• Niveria corallina Cate, 1979 : synonym of Cleotrivia corallina (Cate, 1979)
• † Niveria dalli Petuch, 1994: synonym of † Pusula dalli (Petuch, 1994)
• Niveria dorsennus Cate, 1979: synonym of Dolichupis dorsennus (Cate, 1979)
• Niveria grohorum Fehse & Grego, 2008: synonym of Trivia grohorum (Fehse & Grego, 2008)
• Niveria meridionalis Cate, 1979: synonym of Dolichupis meridionalis (Cate, 1979)
• † Niveria permagna (C. W. Johnson, 1910: synonym of † Pusula permagna (C. W. Johnson, 1910)
• Niveria sanguinea (Sowerby I, 1832): synonym of Pseudopusula sanguinea (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
• Niveria spongicola (Monterosato, 1923): synonym of Trivia spongicola Monterosato, 1923

References

1. Jousseaume F. P. (1884). Bull. Soc. zool. France 9: 100.
2. Niveria Jousseaume, 1884. Gofas, S. (2010). Niveria Jousseaume, 1884. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391519 on 18 March 2011.
3. Niveria brasilica Fehse & Grego, 2005.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
4. Fehse D. & Grego J. (2010). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae XX. A new species from the genus Niveria Jousseaume 1884 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 23-33. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/023-033.
5. Fehse D. & Grego J. (2010). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae. XX. A new species from the genus Niveria Jousseaume 1884 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 23-33.
6. Niveria nix (Schilder, 1922).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
7. Niveria quadripunctata (Gray, 1827).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
8. Niveria suffusa (Gray, 1827).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
9. Niveria werneri Fehse, 1999.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.
10. Niveria colettae Fehse, 1999.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 July 2010.

• Fehse D. (2002) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) V. Kritische Beurteilung der Genera und Beschreibung einer neuen Art der Gattung Semitrivia Cossmann, 1903. Acta Conchyliorum 6: 3-48. page(s): 9
• 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.

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