Trivellona bealsi

Trivellona bealsi
Shell of Trivellona bealsi (specimern at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Triviidae
Genus:	Trivellona
Species:	T. bealsi
Binomial name
Trivellona bealsi Rosenberg & Finley, 2001[1]

Trivellona bealsi is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.[2]

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm.

Distribution

This marine specimen occurs off the Philippines.

References

1. Rosenberg & Finley (2001). Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 151 : 23-30. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 9 July 2010.
2. Trivellona bealsi Rosenberg & Finley, 2001. WoRMS (2010). Trivellona bealsi Rosenberg & Finley, 2001. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.eu/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=458290 on 9 July 2010 .

• Fehse D. & Grego J. (2004) Contribution to the knowledge of the Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). IX. Revision of the genus Trivellona. Berlin and Banska Bystrica. Published as a CD in 2004; as a book in 2009.

External links

• Gary Rosenberg and Charles C. Finley, New Species of Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from South Africa, Namibia and the Philippines; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Vol. 151 (Dec. 31, 2001), pp. 23-30