Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Velutinoidea > Family Triviidae > Genus Trivia

Trivia monacha (da Costa, 1778)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Trivia*	J. E. Gray, 1837	accepted genus name
*Trivia (Trivia)*	Gray, 1837	synonym

Species group names

*Cypraea coccinella*	Lamarck, 1810	synonym
*Cypraea europaea*	Montagu, 1808	synonym
*Cypraea europaea var. tripunctata*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883	synonym
*Trivia jousseaumei*	Locard, 1886	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gevlekt koffiebontje; gevlekt koffieboontje sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: bean cowrie; European cowrie; spotted cowrie sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

French: grain de café; porcelaine puce; pucelage sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

German: Europäische Kauri; Gefleckte Kaffeebohne; Gefleckte Kaurischnecke; Gefleckte Scheinkauri

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
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. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Trivia monacha (da Costa, 1778). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141744