Ellatrivia

Ellatrivia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.^[1]

Ellatrivia
Shell of Ellatrivia merces (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Cypraeoidea
Family:	Triviidae
Genus:	Ellatrivia Cotton & Godfrey, 1932
Type species
Triviella merces Iredale, 1924
Synonyms[1]
Austrotrivia Fehse, 2002 Fossatrivia Schilder, 1939

Nomenclature

Under Art. 13.1 of the ICZN Code, the name Ellatrivia is not available from Iredale (1931), because he did not provide a description.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Ellatrivia include:

• † Ellatrivia aequiflora (Laws, 1941)
• Ellatrivia bipunctata (Odhner, 1917)
• Ellatrivia caelatura (Hedley, 1918)
• Ellatrivia cydarum (C. N. Cate, 1979)
• Ellatrivia detavorai Fehse & Grego, 2010
• Ellatrivia exmouthensis (C. N. Cate, 1979)
• † Ellatrivia kaiparaensis Laws, 1939
• Ellatrivia merces (Iredale, 1924)
• Ellatrivia oryzoidea (Iredale, 1935)
• † Ellatrivia zealandica (Kirk, 1882)

Species brought into synonymy

• Ellatrivia memorata (Finlay, 1926): synonym of Ellatrivia merces (Iredale, 1924)