North Sea Benthos Survey (NSBS)

WoRMS taxon details

Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774)

AphiaID

141821 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141821)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Margarites J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Turbo helicinus Phipps, 1774

Synonymised names

Eumargarita helicina (Phipps, 1774) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Helix margarita Montagu, 1808 · unaccepted (synonym)

Margarita arctica Leach, 1819 · unaccepted

Margarita arctica var. major Middendorff, 1848 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Margarita campanulata A. S. Packard, 1867 · unaccepted

Margarita communis W. Thompson, 1844 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Margarita helicina (Phipps, 1774) · unaccepted (invalid: genus name a junior homonym)

Margarita helicina var. major Middendorff, 1848 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Margarita obliqua G. B. Sowerby III, 1913 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Margarita vulgaris G. B. Sowerby I, 1838 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Margarites (Margarites) helicina (Phipps, 1774) · unaccepted (wrong gender agreement of the...)

wrong gender agreement of the species epithet

Margarites (Margarites) helicina helicina (Phipps, 1774) · unaccepted (wrong gender agreement of the...)

wrong gender agreement of the species epithet

Margarites (Margarites) helicinus (Phipps, 1774) · alternative representation

Margarites beringensis (E. A. Smith, 1899) · unaccepted

Margarites diaphana J. E. Gray, 1847 · unaccepted (unnecessary substitute name for...)

unnecessary substitute name for Helix margarita Montagu, 1808

Margarites helicina (Phipps, 1774) · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet

Margarites helicinus var. elevatus Dall, 1919 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Margarites helicinus var. excavatus Dall, 1919 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Phorcus margarita (Montagu, 1808) · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Trochus arcticus (Leach, 1819) · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Trochus borealis R. A. Philippi, 1855 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Trochus helicinus (Phipps, 1774) · unaccepted

Trochus helicinus var. fasciata Jeffreys, 1865 · unaccepted (synonym)

Trochus neritoides Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Turbo helicinus Phipps, 1774 · unaccepted (original combination)

Turbo inflatus Totten, 1834 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Turbo margarita (Montagu, 1808) · unaccepted (a junior synonym)

Valvatella beringensis E. A. Smith, 1899 · unaccepted

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Variety Margarites helicinus var. elevatus Dall, 1919 accepted as Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774) (a junior synonym)
Variety Margarites helicinus var. excavatus Dall, 1919 accepted as Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774) (a junior synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Turbo helicinus Phipps, 1774) Phipps C.J. (1774). A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. London. i-viii, 1-253., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15066869
page(s): 198 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Locally abundant

Distribution Locally abundant [details]

Distribution Range: 80°N to 42°N; 125°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Queen...

Distribution Range: 80°N to 42°N; 125°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, Massachusetts; Eastern Atlantic: Iceland [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141821 on 2025-01-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2022-05-20 09:12:33Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Turbo helicinus Phipps, 1774) Phipps C.J. (1774). A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. London. i-viii, 1-253., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15066869
page(s): 198 [details]

original description (of Margarita arctica Leach, 1819) 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., available online at https://archive.org/details/voyageofdiscover02ross/page/n413/mode/2up
page(s): lxi [details]

original description (of Helix margarita Montagu, 1808) Montagu, G. (1808). Supplement to Testacea Britannica with Additional Plates. Woolmer, Exeter. v + 183 pp., pl. 17-30. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/61685744 [details]

original description (of Margarita campanulata A. S. Packard, 1867) Packard, A. S. (1867). View of the recent invertebrate fauna of Labrador. Memoirs read before the Boston Society of Natural History. 1 : 262-302., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7494517
page(s): 284, pl. VII, figs. 15, 15a [details]

original description (of Valvatella beringensis E. A. Smith, 1899) Smith, E. A. (1899). On some Mollusca from the Bering Sea, with descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 3: 205–207., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32075558
page(s): 206, text figs. [details]

original description (of Margarita vulgaris G. B. Sowerby I, 1838) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1838). A descriptive catalogue of the species of Leach's genus Margarita. The Malacological and Conchological Magazine. 1: 23–27., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8422960
page(s): 24 [details]

original description (of Margarita arctica var. major Middendorff, 1848) Middendorff A.T. von. (1848). Vorläufige Anzeige einiger neuen Konchylien aus den Geschlechtern: Littorina, Tritonium, Bullia, Natica und Margarita. Bulletin de la Classe Physico-Mathématique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg. 7(16): 241-246., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45977377
page(s): 246 [details]

original description (of Trochus helicinus var. fasciata Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 296 [details]

original description (of Margarites diaphana J. E. Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). On the classification of the British Mollusca by W E Leach. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (1) 20: 267-273., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2278926
page(s): 271 [details]

original description (of Trochus borealis R. A. Philippi, 1855) Philippi, R. A. (1846-1855). Die Kreiselschnecken oder Trochoideen (Gattungen Turbo, Trochus, Solarium, Rotella, Delphinula, Phasianella). In Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Beschreibungen. In: Küster, H. C.; Ed. Systematisches Conchylien Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Zweiten Bandes, dritte Abtheilung. 2(3): 1-372, pl. 1-49. Nürnberg: Bauer & Raspe (pp. 1-24 [1846], 25-32 [1847], 33-72 [1848], 73-120 [1849], 121-136 [1850], 137-232 [1851], 233-248 [1852], 249-372 [1855]; pl. 1-6 [1846], 7-18 [1847], 19-24 [1848], 25-32, 34-39 [1849], 40-45 [1850], 33, 46-49 [1851])., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/106978
page(s): 283-284 [1855], pl. 42, fig. 1 [1850 - uncaptioned].; note: See Coan & Kabat (2017) for dating. [details]

original description (of Turbo inflatus Totten, 1834) Totten J.G. (1834). Description of some new shells, belonging to the coast of New England. American Journal of Science and Arts. 26: 366-369, 1 pl., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30989159
page(s): 368, fig. 15 [details]

original description (of Margarita communis W. Thompson, 1844) Thompson, W. (1844). Report on the fauna of Ireland: Div. Invertebrata. Drawn up, at the request of the British Association. Report of the Thirteenth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Pp. 245-291., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12920904
page(s): 256 [details]

original description (of Trochus neritoides Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3577 [details]

original description (of Margarita obliqua G. B. Sowerby III, 1913) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1913). Descriptions of eight new marine Gastropoda mostly from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. Series 8, 11: 557-560, pl. 9., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18636118
page(s): 560, pl. IX, fig. 8 [details]

original description (of Margarites helicinus var. elevatus Dall, 1919) Dall, W. H. (1919). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 56 (2295): 293-371., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766313
page(s): 366 [details]

original description (of Margarites helicinus var. excavatus Dall, 1919) Dall, W. H. (1919). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 56 (2295): 293-371., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766313
page(s): 366 [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [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 Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350432257_Marine_and_brackish-water_Gastropoda_of_Russia_and_adjacent_countries_an_illustrated_catalogue
page(s): 34 [details]

additional source Gulbin, V. V.; Chaban, E. M. (2012). Annotated list of shell-bearing gastropods of Commander Islands. Part I. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society</i. 15-16: 5-30. [In Russian]., available online at http://rfems.dvo.ru/images/rfems/bulletin/vol_015_016/article_01.pdf [details] Available for editors

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additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 60 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Authority Margarites helicinus has been established by Phipps in 1774 and not by Fabricus in 1780 as Winchworth (1932), Sneli (1970) (and others) mention. [details]

Dimensions maximum size of 6 to 8 mm [details]

Distribution Locally abundant [details]

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

Definitions

Language	Name
Danish	perlesnegl	[details]
English	spiral margaritesmooth margaritepearly topsnailpearly top shellhelicina margarite	[details]
German	Glatte Perlkreiselschnecke	[details]
Japanese	エゾシタダミ	[details]

Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) (from synonym Margarites beringensis (E. A. Smith, 1899))
To Barcode of Life (33 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Valvatella beringensis E. A. Smith, 1899)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Margarites beringensis (E. A. Smith, 1899))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Margarites beringensis) (from synonym Margarites beringensis (E. A. Smith, 1899))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Margarites helicinus)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Margarites beringensis (E. A. Smith, 1899))
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard
To Malacopics (Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774) )
To Malacopics (Margarites helicinus (Phipps,1774) Norway, Nordland, Lofoten Islands, Fredvang, bea...
To PESI (from synonym Helix margarita Montagu, 1808)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Trochus helicinus (Phipps, 1774))
To PESI (from synonym Trochus helicinus var. fasciata Jeffreys, 1865)
To PESI (from synonym Turbo helicinus Phipps, 1774)
To PESI (from synonym Margarita arctica Leach, 1819)
To PESI (from synonym Margarita campanulata A. S. Packard, 1867)
To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait)
To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait) (from synonym Margarites beringensis (E. A. Smith, 1899))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Margarites beringensis (E. A. Smith, 1899))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS

Unreviewed

Margarites helicinus

To Malacopics (Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774) )

Hosted externally

To Malacopics (Margarites helicinus (Phipps,1774) Norway, Nordland, Lofoten Islands, Fredvang, bea...

Hosted externally