Trivia (gastropod)
| Trivia | |
|---|---|
| Seven shells of Trivia monacha from beach drift near Aberffraw, Anglesey. Scale is in cm. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Triviidae |
| Subfamily: | Triviinae |
| Genus: | Trivia Gray, 1837 |
| Type species | |
| Cypraea europaea Montagu, 1808 | |
Trivia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Triviidae, the trivias.
These are known in Britain as "cowries". The shell of these species does superficially resemble the shell of a very small cowry, but Trivia species are not very closely related to true cowries.