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

Margarites Gray, 1847

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Margarita*	Leach, 1819	later homonym; nom. inval.
*Margarita*	Leach, 1819	synonym; nom. inval.
*Trochus (Margarita)*	Leach, 1819	synonym

Children

Margarites costalis (Gould, 1841)
Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791)
Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774)
Margarites laminarum (Jeffreys, 1883)
Margarites olivaceus (Brown, 1827)
Margarites striatus (Leach, 1841)
Margarites toroides Hoffman, van Heugten & Lavaleye, 2011
Margarites vahlii (Møller, 1842)

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	Spencer, H.G.; Marshall, B.A.; Maxwell, P.A.; Grant-Mackie, J.A.; Stilwell, J.D.; Willan, R.C.; Campbell, H.J.; Crampton, J.S.; Henderson, R.A.; Bradshaw, M.A.; Waterhouse, J.B.; Pojeta, J. Jr (2009). Phylum Mollusca: chitons, clams, tusk shells, snails, squids, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 161-254.
additional source	Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.

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Citation

Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2014). Margarites Gray, 1847. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138592