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Gastropoda: : Trochoidea: Margaritinae

Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791)


Range: 83°N to 59°N; 120°W to 0°W
Depth: 0 to 293 m (live 0 to 192 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 25  mm

Synonymy

Trochus groenlandicus Gmelin, 1791
Margarita groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791) 
Margarita umbilicalis Broderip & Sowerby, 1829
Trochus umbilicalis (Broderip & Sowerby, 1829) 
Margarita sulcata Sowerby I, 1838
Margarita laevior Möller, 1842
Trochus rossi Philippi, 1852
Margarita laevigata Odhner, 1915
Margarites spiralis F. C. Baker, 1919

Details


Trochus groenlandicus Gmelin, 1791, p. 3574, [Chemnitz 1781, pl. 171, fig. 1671]
[Basis of the current name]
Attributed to: Chemnitz (1781)
Type Locality: Greenland
Range: 82°N to 60°N; 120°W to 0°W
Depth: 0 to 293 m (live 3 to 150 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 25 mm
Distribution: Greenland: North Greenland, West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada: Nunavut, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Labrador, Quebec
References: Thorson (1944) Ll; Macpherson (1971) {L}; Fretter & Graham (1977) E; Schiötte (1989) {l}N; Rehder (1990) SWM; Alexeyev (2003)
Comments: Non Möller, 1842.
Combining Genera:  Margarita

Margarita laevigata Odhner, 1915, 
[Synonym]
References: Rehder (1990) s

Margariata undulata var. laevior Möller, 1842a, p. 81
[Synonym]
Type Locality: [West] Greenland
Maximum Reported Size: 11.5 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland
References: Rehder (1990) s; Schiötte & Warén (1992) M

Trochus rossi Philippi, 1852, 
[Synonym]
References: Rehder (1990) s
Comments: New name for Margarita sulcata Sowerby, 1838, non Trochus sulcatus Lamarck, 1804.

Margarites umbilicalis var. spiralis F. C. Baker, 1919, p. 504
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Etah or Foulke Fjord, Greenland
Range: 78°N ; 73°W
Depth: 4 to 18 m
Maximum Reported Size: 19 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland
References: Rehder (1990) s

Margarita sulcata Sowerby I, 1838a, p. 26, [Sowerby II (1838a), pl. 132, fig. 1]
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Ad Insulam Melville
Maximum Reported Size: 11.7 mm
References: Sowerby I (1838a) M; Rehder (1990) s

Margarita umbilicalis Broderip & Sowerby, 1829, p. 371
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Oceano Boreali
Range: 83°N to 59°N; 119°W to 50°W
Depth: 0 to 293 m (live 0 to 192 m)
Maximum Reported Size: 24 mm
Distribution: Greenland, Canada: Nunavut, Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Labrador, Quebec
References: Macpherson (1971) LlNSEWM; Rehder (1990) s; Alexeyev (2003)
Combining Genera:  Trochus


Partial List of References

Baker, F. C. 1919. Mollusca of the Crocker Land Expedition to Northwest Greenland and Grinnell Island Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 41 479-517, pls. 25-27. [Stated date: 01 Dec 1919.]
Broderip, W. J. and G. B. Sowerby. 1829. Observations on new or interesting Mollusca contained, for the most part, in the museum of the Zoological Society Zoological Journal 4 359-379, pl. 9. [Stated date: -- Jan 1829.]
Gmelin, J. F. 1791. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae. Editio decima tertia Systema Naturae, 13th ed., vol. 1(6) 3021-3910. Lipsiae.
Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4 76-97.
Sowerby, G. B., I. 1838. A descriptive catalogue of the species of Leach's genus Margarita Malacological and Conchological Magazine 1 23-27.

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