Margarites

Margarites
Margarites pupillus
Apertural view of a shell of Margarites ecarinatus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Margaritidae
Genus: Margarites
Gray, 1847
Type species
Helix margarita
Montagu, 1808
Synonyms
  • Eumargarita P. Fischer, 1885
  • Eumargarita (Valvatella) Gray, 1857
  • Margarita Leach, 1819 (Invalid: junior homonym of Margarita Leach, 1814 [Bivalvia, Pteriidae])
  • Trochus (Margarita) Leach, 1819 (non Leach, 1814)
  • Valvatella Gray, 1857

Margarites is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Margaritidae.

This genus belonged previously to the subfamily Margaritinae in the family Turbinidae.

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