Margarites helicinus

Margarites helicinus
Margarites helicinus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Subfamily: Margaritinae
Genus: Margarites
Species: M. helicinus
Binomial name
Margarites helicinus
(Phipps, 1774)
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Clio helicinus Phipps, 1774
  • Margarita helicina (Phipps, 1774)
  • Eumargarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774)
  • Trochus helicinus Fabricius, 1780
  • Helix margarita Montagu, 1808

Margarites helicinus, common name the helicina margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinidae, the turban snails.[1]

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Description

Distribution

References

  1. ^ a b Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141821 on 20 April 2010.
  2. ^ Journal of Molluscan Studies 43:3, pp. 41-45

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