Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Volutoidea > Family Marginellidae > Subfamily Marginellinae

Marginella Lamarck, 1799

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Porcellana*	Gray, 1847	junior homonym; nom. inval.

Children

Marginella agadirensis T. Cossignani, 2022
Marginella aronnax Bouchet & Warén, 1985
Marginella carmenae Ortega & Gofas, 2019
Marginella colomborum (Bozzetti, 1995)
Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758)
Marginella gustavoi Pérez-Dionis, Ortea & Espinosa, 2009
Marginella impudica P. Fischer, 1884
Marginella irrorata Menke, 1828
Marginella limbata Lamarck, 1822
Marginella marocana Locard, 1897
Marginella pulex Ortega & Gofas, 2019
Marginella subturrita P. Fischer, 1884
Marginella velai T. Cossignani & Ahuir, 2020

Literature

original description	Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91.
basis of record	Veldsman S.G. (2017). Taxonomic reclassification of the genus Marginella Lamarck, 1799 and description of new subgenera (Neogastropoda: Marginellidae). Visaya. suppl. 9: 5-46.
additional source	Cossignani, T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Marginella Lamarck, 1799. 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:138166