Trivia monacha
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Trivia monacha, also known as the European cowrie or spotted cowrie, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triviidae, the trivias.
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Trivia monacha | |
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Live spotted cowrie in a petri dish | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Triviidae |
Genus: | Trivia |
Species: | T. monacha |
Binomial name | |
Trivia monacha (da Costa, 1778) | |
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The name Trivia means "common" and the word monacha means "solitary".
It is worth comparing this species with the similar species Trivia arctica, the northern cowrie.