Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Order Trochida > Superfamily Trochoidea > Family Solariellidae > Genus Solariella

Solariella obscura (Couthouy, 1838)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Turbo Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Solariella*	S. V. Wood, 1842	accepted genus name
*Machaeroplax*	Friele, 1877	synonym
*Trochus (Solariella)*	S. V. Wood, 1842	synonym

Species group names

*Machaeroplax obscura*	(Couthouy, 1838)	synonym
*Machaeroplax obscura var. carinata*	A. E. Verrill, 1882	synonym
*Margarita albula*	A. Gould, 1861	synonym
*Margarita bella*	Verkrüzen, 1875	synonym
*Margarita obscura*	(Couthouy, 1838)	synonym
*Margarita obscura var. islandica*	Odhner, 1910	synonym
*Solariella albula*	(Gould, 1861)	synonym
*Solariella laevis*	Friele, 1886	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: obscure solarelle sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

German: Seltsame Solariella

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	Galkin, Yu. I. (1955). Bryukhonogiye mollyuski trokhidy dal'nevostochnykh i severnykh morey SSSR (Semeystvo Trochidae) / Брюхоногие моллюски трохиды дальневосточных и северных морей СССР (Семейство Trochidae) / Gastropod molluscs trochids of Far Eastern and northern seas of the USSR (Family Trochidae). Opredeliteli po faune SSSR. 57: 1-131 (in Russian).
additional source	Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
status source	Dornellas, A. P. S.; Simone, L. R. (2015). New morphological data on Solariella obscura (Trochoidea: Solariellidae) from New Jersey, USA. Zoologia (Curitiba). 32(2): 162-170.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Solariella obscura (Couthouy, 1838). 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:141840