Trivia arctica
(Pulteney, 1799) · speciesAt a glance
Sources9 archives
Databases and archives Trivia arctica's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation5 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility5 007 records↗
OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System2 461 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI2 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics17 specimens↗
Paleobiology DatabasePBDB consortiumfossil record↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Trivia arctica, the northern cowrie, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Triviidae, the trivias. This is a similar species to Trivia monacha and it often occurs in the same areas. The name Trivia means "common" and the word arctica means "of the arctic".
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Habitat & environment2
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Trivia arctica has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Trivia arctica. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
How it livedPBDB
Record type7 475 records
Origin
Range
Depth
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions15 of 42 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Paris, FR | 120 |
| Stockholm, SE | 89 |
| DASSHlocation not on record | 83 |
| Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record | 77 |
| PNHSlocation not on record | 68 |
| NTNU-VMlocation not on record | 60 |
| CEFASlocation not on record | 53 |
| Gothenburg, SE | 29 |
| Bergen, NO | 25 |
| Cambridge, US | 20 |
| RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record | 15 |
| Norwegian Institute of Marine Researchlocation not on record | 13 |
| Bergen, NO | 10 |
| MHN-UPlocation not on record | 9 |
| Institut Francais pour l'Etude de la Merlocation not on record | 8 |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record | 6 |
| 486location not on record | 5 |
| 730location not on record | 5 |
| Philadelphia, US | 4 |
| Frankfurt am Main | 3 |
| Citadel Hill, GB | 3 |
| Auckland, NZ | 3 |
| Brussels, BE | 3 |
| South Kensington, GB | 3 |
| Delaware Museum of Nature and Sciencelocation not on record | 3 |
| ELMClocation not on record | 2 |
| Denver, US | 2 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 2 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Helsinki, FI | 2 |
| Paleontological Research Institutionlocation not on record | 1 |
| Provincia di Livornolocation not on record | 1 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 1 |
| PUC-RSlocation not on record | 1 |
| ICM-CSIClocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum of Utahlocation not on record | 1 |
| ARMS-MBONlocation not on record | 1 |
| Toronto, CA | 1 |
| P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Natural History Museum, Londonlocation not on record | 1 |
| Deutsches Zentrum fuer Marine Biodiversitaetsforschunglocation not on record | 1 |
| Naturalis Biodiversity Centerlocation not on record | 1 |
Where the DNA of Trivia arctica was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.