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

Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

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 costellata*	G. B. Sowerby I, 1838	synonym
*Margarita groenlandica*	(Gmelin, 1791)	synonym
*Margarita groenlandica spiralis*	F. C. Baker, 1919	synonym
*Margarita striata*	Leach, 1819	synonym
*Margarita sulcata*	G. B. Sowerby I, 1838	synonym
*Margarita undulata*	G. B. Sowerby I, 1838	synonym
*Margarites groenlandica*	(Gmelin, 1791)	synonym
*Margarites striatus*	(Leach, 1819)	synonym
*Trochus groenlandicus*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Trochus groenlandicus var. albida*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Trochus groenlandicus var. dilatata*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Trochus inflatus*	T. Brown, 1839	synonym
*Turbo carneus*	R. T. Lowe, 1825	synonym
*Turbo incarnatus*	Couthouy, 1838	synonym

Children

Margarites groenlandicus groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791)
Margarites groenlandicus umbilicalis (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Greenland margarite; Greenland top shell; Greenland topsnail sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);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: Grönland-Kreiselschnecke

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	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
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	Rehder, H. (1990). Clarification of the identity of the snail Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791) (Gastropoda, Trochidae). The Nautilus. 103(4): 117-123, figs. 1-13.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791). 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:141820