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Margarites olivaceus (Brown, 1827) 
AphiaID: 141822

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

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English eastern olive margarite  [details]
English olive margarite  [details]
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 Subspecies Margarites olivaceus marginatus Dall, 1919
Subspecies Margarites olivaceus olivaceus (Brown, 1827)
Environment marine
Distribution Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Manicouagan [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Lawrence River [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: maximum size of 2 to 4 mm in length [details]

Distribution: Range: 82°N to 42.3°N; 119°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: North Greenland, West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Labrador, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec; USA: Maine, Massachusetts [details]

Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Image 
Margarites olivaceus
Margarites olivaceus
added on 2007-01-31 - author: Warén, Anders
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141822
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Margarites olivaceus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141822 on 2013-05-19
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