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Rice grain bean cowry
Trivirostra oryza
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 216896, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Rice grain bean cowry
- Scientific
- Trivirostra oryza
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Sea snails
- Family
- Triviidae (trivias)
- Depth and habitat
- Reef-associated
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A tiny, white, rice-grain-sized shell with fine ribs across it, related to the cowries. It lives under rocks and rubble on shallow reefs and feeds on sea squirts.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=5); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=6, 4 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Trivirostra-oryza.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216896
- inaturalist.org /taxa/408199
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Trivirostra_oryza_01.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.