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Trivia arctica (Pulteney, 1799)

To GB Mollusca Types (Bulla diaphana Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll4311)
To GB Mollusca Types (Bulla diaphana Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll4311)

141741  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141741)

accepted
Species
Bulla diaphana Montagu, 1803 · unaccepted (synonym)
Cypraea arctica Pulteney, 1799 · unaccepted (original combination)
Cypraea norvegica M. Sars, 1835 · unaccepted (synonym)

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  1. Subspecies Trivia arctica canariensis Settepassi, 1977 accepted as Trivia (Trivia) hispania C. N. Cate, 1979 accepted as Trivia hispania C. N. Cate, 1979 (not available, published in a work which does not consistently use binominal nomenclature (ICZN art. 11.4); junior homonym of Trivia canariensis Simonelli, 1890)
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(of Cypraea arctica Pulteney, 1799) Pulteney, R. (1799). Catalogue of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants of Dorsetshire. London, Nichols, 92 pp.
page(s): 39 [details] OpenAccess publication
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Trivia arctica (Pulteney, 1799). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org//marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141741 on 2026-06-05
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Trivia arctica (Pulteney, 1799). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=141741 on 2026-06-05
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original description (of Cypraea arctica Pulteney, 1799) Pulteney, R. (1799). Catalogue of the birds, shells, and some of the more rare plants of Dorsetshire. London, Nichols, 92 pp.
page(s): 39 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Cypraea bullata Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 202; pl. 6 fig. 1 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Bulla diaphana Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 225–226, pl. 7 fig. 8 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Cypraea norvegica M. Sars, 1835) Sars, M. (1835). Beskrivelser og Iagttagelser over nogle moerkelige eller nye i Havet ved den Bergenske Kyst levende Dyr af Polypernes, Acalephernes, Radiaternes, Annelidernes og Molluskernes classer, med en kort Oversigt over de hidtil af Forfatteren sammesteds fundne Arter og deres Forekommen. Thorstein Hallagers Forlag hos Chr. Dahl, R.S., Bergen, xii + 81 pp. + 15 pls., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13017 [details] 

original description (of Cypraea europaea var. minor J. T. Marshall, 1893) Marshall, J. T. (1893-1894). Additions to 'British Conchology' [Part 1]. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 7: 241-265 [October 1893], 379-385 [April 1894]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31573735
page(s): 263 [details] 

basis of record Fehse, D.; Grego, J.; Manousis, T.; Dieste, J. P. (2024). Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae, XLV: Does <i>Trivia arctica</i> occur in the Mediterranean Sea?. <em>Acta Conchyliorum.</em> 22: 3-47.
page(s): 5, many illustrations [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198573562.001.0001 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
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Dutch ongevlekt koffieboontje  [details]
English unspotted European cowrienorthern cowrie  [details]
French pucelageporcelaine pucegrain de café  [details]
German gerippte Kaurischnecke  [details]
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland 
Marine Life Information Network - UK 
To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Cypraea arctica Pulteney, 1799)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) 
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Trivia arctica) 
To GB Mollusca Types (Bulla diaphana Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll4311) (from synonym Bulla diaphana Montagu, 1803)
To GB Mollusca Types (Cypraea bullata Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll4248/12) (from synonym Cypraea bullata Montagu, 1803)
To GB Mollusca Types (Trivia arctica Pulteney, 1799; (Non-type material); EXEMS Moll4248/2) 
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins) 
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Cypraea arctica Pulteney, 1799)
To Malacopics (Trivia arctica (Pulteney, 1799) France, Cotes d’Armor, Trébeurden) 
To Malacopics (Trivia arctica (Pulteney,1799) France, Bretagne, Finistère, Île-Molène, NE of lifeb... 
To Malacopics (Trivia arctica (Pulteney,1799) Guernsey, Alderney, Saline Bay) 
To NHMUK collection (Cypraea arctica Pulteney, 1799; LECTOTYPE; NHMUK:ecatalogue:5521962) (from synonym Cypraea arctica Pulteney, 1799)
To PESI (from synonym Trivia dorsolevigata Schilder, 1932)
To PESI (from synonym Bulla diaphana Montagu, 1803)
To PESI (from synonym Cypraea norvegica M. Sars, 1835)
To PESI (from synonym Cypraea europaea var. minor J. T. Marshall, 1893)
To PESI (from synonym Cypraea bullata Montagu, 1803)
To PESI (from synonym Cypraea arctica Pulteney, 1799)
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To ITIS
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