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Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 141820

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Vetigastropoda (Subclass) > Trochoidea (Superfamily) > Margaritidae (Family) > Margarites (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Margarites Gray, 1847
Sources  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 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details]

additional source: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26
page(s): 60 [details]

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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English Greenland margarite  [details]
All child
taxa
[hide all]		 Subspecies Margarites groenlandicus groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791)
Subspecies Margarites groenlandicus kurilensis Golikov & Gulbin, 1978
Subspecies Margarites groenlandicus umbilicalis Broderip & Sowerby, 1829
Environment marine
Distribution British Isles [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of Norway  [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: maximum size of 15 mm  [details]

Distribution: Not recorded from North Sea, rare on British coasts [details]

Distribution: Greenland to Massachusetts Bay [details]

Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]
Images 
Margarites groenlandicus
Margarites groenlandicus
added on 2007-01-31 - author: Warén, Anders
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Margarites groenlandicus
Margarites groenlandicus
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141820
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Margarites groenlandicus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141820 on 2013-06-19
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