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Pseudopusula californiana Coffee Bean Trivia, California trivia

Pseudopusula californiana is commonly referred to as Coffee Bean Trivia, California trivia. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.


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Pseudopusula californiana 2023


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lexID:
13013 
AphiaID:
833539 
Scientific:
Pseudopusula californiana 
German:
Kalifornische Kaurischnecke, Kaffeebohnen-Kauri 
English:
Coffee Bean Trivia, California Trivia 
Category:
Snails 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Triviidae (Family) > Pseudopusula (Genus) > californiana (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Gray, ), 1827 
Occurrence:
Eastern Pacific Ocean, Gulf of California, North Pacific (Ocean), West Coast USA 
Sea depth:
0 - 15 Meter 
Size:
up to 0.39" (1 cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 64.4 °F (°C - 18°C) 
Food:
Carnivore, Predatory, Sea squirts 
Difficulty:
Not suitable for aquarium keeping 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2020-05-11 12:23:20 

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Pseudopusula californiana (Gray, 1827)

Pseudopusula is a genus of small sea snails, known as the false cowries or trivias.

Shell size: 10 mm with slit-like mid-ventral aperture and purple-brown in colour with strong spiral ribs. Mantle often covers much of shell.

Preys on compound tunicates.

Similar to: Pusula (Trivia) solandri (southern Calif. only) is larger (20 mm) and its shell ribs do not cross the midline while in P. californiana they do.

Synonymised names:
Cypraea californiana Gray, 1827 (original combination)
Cypraea californica Gray, 1832
Pusula californiana (Gray, 1827)
Pusula californica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832)
Pusula californica loochooensis C. N. Cate, 1979
Pusula loochooensis C. N. Cate, 1979
Trivia californiana (Gray, 1827)

External links

  1. seanet.stanford.edu (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.

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