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

Margarites Leach, 1847

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Margarita*	Leach, 1819	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Margarites (Margarites)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym; alternate representation
*Trochus (Margarita)*	Leach, 1819	synonym

Children

Margarites costalis (A. Gould, 1841)
Margarites giganteus (Leche, 1878)
Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791)
Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774)
Margarites laminarum (Jeffreys, 1883)
Margarites luciae (G. Seguenza, 1876)
Margarites olivaceus (T. Brown, 1827)
Margarites sordidus (Hancock, 1846)
Margarites vahlii (Møller, 1842)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: margarites; pearly top shells; pearly topsnails sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Perlkreiselschnecken

Literature

original description	Gray, J. E. (1847). The classification of the British Mollusca, by W. E. Leach, M.D. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (1) 20(133): 267-273. [published 1 October 1847].
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	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Margarites Leach, 1847. 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:138592