Margarites (Margarites)

Belongs within: Margaritidae.

The type subgenus of the genus Margarites is found around Europe, North America and the Arctic. It has a low spire with whorls nearly smooth and the last whorl large (Knight et al. 1960).

<==Margarites Gray 1847 (Margarites)BR17
    |--‘Helix’ margarita Montagu 1808BR17 [=Turbo margaritaJ64, *Margarites diaphana Gray 1847BR17]
    |--M. (M.) albolineatus (Smith 1899) [=Valvatella albolineata]O27
    |--M. (M.) beringensis (Smith 1899) [=Valvatella beringensis]O27
    |--M. (M.) groenlandicus (Gmelin 1791)R90 (see below for synonymy)
    |--M. (M.) helicinus (Phipps 1774) [=Turbo helicinus, *Eumargarita helicina, Margarita helicina, Trochus helicinus]KC60
    |    |--M. h. helicinusO27
    |    |--M. h. elevata Dall 1919O27
    |    `--M. h. excavata Dall 1919O27
    |--M. (M.) hypolispus Dall 1919O27
    |--M. (M.) marginatus Dall 1919O27
    |--M. (M.) olivaceus (Brown 1827) [=Trochus olivaceus]O27
    |--M. (M.) pribiloffensis Dall 1919O27
    |--M. (M.) tenuisculptus Carpenter 1865O27 [=Margarita tenuisculptaC64]
    `--M. (M.) vahliiO27

Margarites (Margarites) groenlandicus (Gmelin 1791)^R90 [=Trochus groenlandicus^R90, Margarita groenlandica^R90, T. gronlandicus^R90; incl. Margarita argentata^J64, Margarita glauca^J64, Margarita harrisoni^J64, Margarita groenlandica var. laevigata Odhner 1915^R90, Margarita undulata laevior Möller 1842^R90, Trochus rossi Philippi 1852^R90, Margarites umbilicalis spiralis Baker 1919^R90, Margarita sulcata Sowerby 1838 non Turbo sulcatus Gmelin 1791^R90, Margarita umbilicalis Broderip & Sowerby 1829^R90, Margarites umbilicalis^R90, Margarites groenlandicus umbilicus^R90, Trochus umbilicalis^R90]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BR17] Bouchet, P., J.-P. Rocroi, B. Hausdorf, A. Kaim, Y. Kano, A. Nützel, P. Parkhaev, M. Schrödl & E. E. Strong. 2017. Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. Malacologia 61 (1–2): 1–526.

[C64] Carpenter, P. P. 1864. Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the west coast of North America. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 33: 517–686.

[J64] Jeffreys, J. G. 1864. The Upper Tertiary fossils at Uddevalla, in Sweden. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 33 (Notices and Abstracts): 73–79.

[KC60] Knight, J. B., L. R. Cox, A. M. Keen, R. L. Batten, E. L. Yochelson & R. Robertson. 1960. Gastropoda: systematic descriptions. In: Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology pt I. Mollusca 1: Mollusca—General Features, Scaphopoda, Amphineura, Monoplacophora, Gastropoda—General Features, Archaeogastropoda and some (mainly Paleozoic) Caenogastropoda and Opisthobranchia pp. I169–I331. Geological Society of America, and University of Kansas Press.

[O27] Oldroyd, I. S. 1927. The Marine Shells of the West Coast of North America vol. 2 pt 3. Stanford University Press: Stanford University (California).

[R90] Rehder, H. A. 1990. Clarification of the identity of the snail Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791) (Gastropoda: Trochidae). Nautilus 103 (4): 117–123.