Margarita | |
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Shell of Margarita maxima (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Trochida |
Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
Family: | Margaritidae |
Genus: | Margarita Leach, 1819 |
Type species | |
Margarita arctica Leach, 1819 |
Margarita is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Margaritidae. [1]
The name of this genus has become invalid as junior homonym of MargaritaLeach, 1814 [Bivalvia, Pteriidae], a synonym of Pinctada Röding, 1798. The accepted name is Margarites Gray, 1847
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