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

Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Margarites*	Gray, 1847	accepted genus name
*Margarita*	Leach, 1819	later homonym
*Margarita*	Leach, 1819	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*	Baker, 1919	synonym
*Margarita striata*	Leach, 1819	synonym
*Margarita sulcata*	Sowerby G.B. I, 1828	synonym
*Margarita undulata*	Sowerby G.B. I, 1828	synonym
*Trochus groenlandicus*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Trochus groenlandicus var. dilatata*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Trochus groenlandicus var. laevior*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Turbo carneus*	Lowe, 1825	synonym
*Turbo incarnatus*	Couthouy, 1838	synonym

Children

Margarites groenlandicus groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791)
Margarites groenlandicus umbilicalis (Broderip & Sowerby, 1829)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Greenland margarite

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	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	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	ITIS database

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791). 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:141820