Margarites
creator: Gofas, Serge
creator: Bouchet, Philippe
creator: Auffenberg, Kurt
creator: Dekker, Henk
creator: Bieler, Rüdiger
date: 2026-08-29
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Margarites Leach, 1847
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Margarites Leach, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138592 on 2026-08-29
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2026-02-08T16:49:26Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Margarites Leach, 1847
class: Gastropoda
family: Margaritesidae
genus: Margarites
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Gray, J. E. (1847). The classification of the British Mollusca, by W. E. Leach, M.D. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (1) 20(133): 267-273. [published 1 October 1847].
name published in: Dall, W. H. (1909). Contributions to the Tertiary Palaeontology of the Pacific coast. The Miocene of Astoria and Coos Bay, Oregon. Professional Papers, United States Geological Survey. 59: 1-278.
name published in: Fischer, P. (1880-1887). Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un Appendice sur les Brachiopodes par D. P. Oehlert. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures dessinées par S. P. Woodward.. Paris: F. Savy. Published in 11 parts (fascicules), xxiv + 1369 pp., 23 pls. [1: 1-112, 21 September 1880; 2: 113-192, 16 March 1881; 3: 193-304, 28 July 1881; 4: 305-416, 5 May 1882; 5: 417-512, 21 February 1883; 6: 513-608, 20 December 1883; 7: 609-688, 30 June 1884; 8: 689-784, 29 January 1885; 9: 785-896, 31 August 1885; 10: 897-1008, 30 April 1886; 11: 1009-1369, 15 June 1887].
name published in: Gray, J. E. (1857). Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum. Part I. [Gastropoda]. British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp. [9 May; Preface dated 10 Dec. 1856].
name published in: Habe T. & Ito K. [Kiyoshi]. (1965). New genera and species of shells chiefly collected from the North Pacific. Venus. 24(1): 16-45, pls 2-4.
name published in: Leach W. E. (1819). A list of invertebrate animals discovered by H. M. S. Isabella, in a voyage to the Arctic regions: corrected by W. E. Leach. Appendix II. p.lxi - lxiv [in] Ross, John A voyage of discovery in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander [in 1818] for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay and enquiring into the possibility of a northwest passage. [book]. xxxix+252 pp., 29 pls, 3 maps. John Murray. London.
name published in: McLean, J. H. (1995). Three additional new genera and two replacement names for northeastern Pacific prosobranch gastropods. The Nautilus. 108(3): 80-82.
name published in: Thiele, J. (1906). Bemerkung ueber die Gattung Photinula. Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 38(1): 12-15.
name published in year: 1847
name published in year: 1909
name published in year: 1880-1887
name published in year: 1857
name published in year: 1965
name published in year: 1819
name published in year: 1995
name published in year: 1906
order: Trochida
parent name usage ID: 1868746
phylum: Mollusca
scientific name authorship: Leach, 1847
taxon rank: Genus
taxonomic status: accepted