Niveria harriettae

Niveria harriettae is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.

Niveria harriettae
Shell of Niveria harriettae (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:
Velutinoidea
Family:
Triviidae
Subfamily:
Triviinae
Genus:
Niveria
Species:
N. harriettae
Binomial name
Niveria harriettae
Fehse & Grego, 2010[1]

This species was described by Dirk Fehse and Jozef Grego in 2010, and is known from the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.[1]

References
  1. Fehse D. & Grego J. (2010). "Contributions to the knowledge of the Triviidae XX. A new species from the genus Niveria Jousseaume 1884 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Prosobranchia)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde 139(1): 23-33. doi:10.1127/arch.moll/1869-0963/139/023-033.



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