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

Margarites sordidus (Hancock, 1846)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Margarita Leach, 1819

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Margarites*	Leach, 1847	accepted genus name
*Margarita*	Leach, 1819	junior homonym
*Margarites (Margarites)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym
*Trochus (Margarita)*	Leach, 1819	synonym

Species group names

*Margarita striata*	Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829	synonym

Literature

basis of record	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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Margarites sordidus (Hancock, 1846). 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:160357