Niveria

Short description: Genus of gastropods

Niveria

Niveria suffusa shell
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Gastropoda
Subclass:  | Caenogastropoda
Order:  | Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:  | Cypraeoidea
Family:  | Triviidae
Genus:  | Niveria
Jousseaume, 1884[1]
Type species
Cypraea nivea Sowerby, 1832

Synonyms[2]

* Circumscapula Cate, 1979
* † Sulcotrivia Schilder, 1933

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

## Species

Species within the genus Niveria include:

* † Niveria angliae (S. V. Wood, 1848)
* † Niveria avellana (J. de C. Sowerby, 1822)
* Niveria bieleri Fehse & Grego, 2016
* Niveria brasilica Fehse & Grego, 2005[3]
* † Niveria callosa Fehse, 2021
* † Niveria cylindriclementi Landau, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2018
* † Niveria dimidiatoaffinis (Sacco, 1894)
* † Niveria excoccinella (Sacco, 1894)
* Niveria guyana Fehse, 2016
* Niveria harriettae Fehse & Grego, 2010[4]
* † Niveria intuscrenata (Cossmann & Pissarro, 1905)
* Niveria lathyrus (Blainville, 1826)
* † Niveria ledoni Fehse & Vicián, 2020
* Niveria liltvedi (Gofas, 1984)
* Niveria macaeica (Fehse & Grego, 2005)[5]
* Niveria maltbiana (Schwengel & McGinty, 1942)
* Niveria maugeriae (Sowerby, 1832)
* † Niveria miocarinata Fehse & Vicián, 2020
* Niveria nix (Schilder, 1922)[6]
* † Niveria novosperara Fehse, 2021
* Niveria pacifica (Sowerby, 1832)
* † Niveria peyreirensis (Cossmann & Peyrot, 1922)
* † Niveria pseudoavellana (Sacco, 1894)
* Niveria pullata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
* Niveria quadripunctata (Gray, 1827)[7]
* Niveria simonei Fehse, 2016
* 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 campus (Cate, 1979): synonym of Pseudopusula campus (C. N. Cate, 1979)
* Niveria carabus (Cate, 1979): synonym of Pseudopusula sanguinea (J. E. Gray in G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
* Niveria cherobia (Cate, 1979): synonym of Pseudopusula rubescens (J. E. Gray, 1833)
* Niveria circumdata (Schilder, 1931): synonym of Pseudopusula circumdata (F. A. Schilder, 1931)
* 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 fusca (Sowerby, 1832): synonym of Pseudopusula fusca (Gray in G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
* Niveria galapagensis (Melvill, 1900): synonym of Pseudopusula galapagensis (Melvill, 1900)
* Niveria grohorum Fehse & Grego, 2008: synonym of Trivia grohorum (Fehse & Grego, 2008)
* † Niveria incomparabilis Fehse, 2013: synonym of † Pseudopusula incomparabilis (Fehse, 2013) (original combination)
* † Niveria jozefgregoi Fehse, 2011: synonym of † Pseudopusula jozefgregoi (Fehse, 2011) (original combination)
* Niveria meridionalis Cate, 1979: synonym of Dolichupis meridionalis (Cate, 1979)
* † Niveria permagna (Johnson, 1910): synonym of † Pusula permagna (Johnson, 1910)
* Niveria problematica (Schilder, 1931): synonym of Pseudopusula problematica (F. A. Schilder, 1931)
* Niveria rubescens (Gray, 1833): synonym of Pseudopusula rubescens (J. E. Gray, 1833)
* Niveria sanguinea (Sowerby, 1832): synonym of Pseudopusula sanguinea (Sowerby, 1832)
* Niveria spongicola (Monterosato, 1923): synonym of Trivia spongicola Monterosato, 1923

## References

1. ↑ Jousseaume F. P. (1884). Bull. Soc. zool. France 9: 100.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.

## External links

* Cate, C. N. (1979). A review of the Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). San Diego Society of Natural History, Memoir. 10: 1-126

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