Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Trivia pacifica (Sowerby, ex Gray, MS, 1832); Note: Original description Niveria (Niveria) pacifica (Sowerby H, 1832), 1832- Cypraea pacifica Sowerby II, Conch. Illustr.. Cypraeidae: 13 (125): 13; fig. 39, 1971- Trivia (Niveria) pacifica (Sowerby. 1832, ex Gray MS) Keen, Sea Shells of Tropical West America: 486; fig. 903 (Cate, 1979) this genus actually is unacepted supresed the combination considered Niveria pacifica (Sowerby, 1832) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: (Niveria (Niveria) pacifica) San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, N Seymour Island, Galapagos Islands; 21 March 1971, Ameripagos Exped. (The Festivus [Nov. 1976], Pseiidocypraea adamsonii (Sowerby II. 1832) [identification error, should have been: Niveria (Niveria) pacifica (Sowerby II, 1832)). Schilder, 1941: Payta [Peru); Sechura Bay, Ecuador; Panama Bay [Pacific Panama]; Esmeraldes, NW Ecuador; Buenaventura, W Colombia; Galapagos Islands; Magdalena Bay, W Baja, and Cape San Lucas, La Paz, SE Baja California Sur (Cate, 1979). (Trivia pacifica) Coast ofLower California to Peru and the Galapagos Islands (Hickman & Finet, 1999).

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• Cate, C.N. (1979) A Review of the Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). San Diego Society of Natural History, Memoir. 10: 1-126 pp.
• Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
• Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
• Skoglund, C. (1992) Additions to the Panamic Province Gastropod (Mollusca) literature: 1971 to 1992. The Festivus 24, Supplement: viii + 169 pp.