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

Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Turbo Linnaeus, 1758

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

*Helix margarita*	Montagu, 1808	synonym
*Margarita arctica*	Leach, 1819	synonym
*Margarita campanulata*	A. S. Packard, 1867	synonym
*Trochus helicinus*	(Phipps, 1774)	synonym
*Trochus helicinus var. fasciata*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: perlesnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

English: helicina margarite; pearly top shell; pearly topsnail; smooth margarite; spiral margarite sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;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: Glatte Perlkreiselschnecke 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.

Japanese: エゾシタダミ

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	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
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	Gulbin, V. V.; Chaban, E. M. (2012). Annotated list of shell-bearing gastropods of Commander Islands. Part I. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 15-16: 5-30. [In Russian].
additional source	Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774). 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:141821