Poole, Karen E.
Margarites
Sign in to saveMargarites is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Margaritidae.
Species
margarites
KINGDOM
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderTrochida
- FamilyMargaritesidae
Habitatmarine, brackish
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 1,114
- With media
- 47
- Family
- Margaritidae
- Collections
- LACM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, UWBM, PRI, CAS, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Norway, Argentina, Iceland, United Kingdom, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Russia, Greenland
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- Margarites
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- Category:Margarites
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Margarites” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.