Pusula pediculus

Pusula pediculus, common name the "coffee bean trivia", is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.^[1] This species was previously known as Trivia pediculus.

Pusula pediculus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Velutinoidea
Family:	Triviidae
Subfamily:	Triviinae
Genus:	Pusula
Species:	P. pediculus
Binomial name
Pusula pediculus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution

Western Atlantic: common as beached shells in the Eastern Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles where they are commonly known as "puppy-eyes".

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 22 mm.^[2]

Habitat

The minimum recorded depth for this species is 0 m; maximum recorded depth is 129 m.^[2]