WoRMS name details
Margaritidae Thiele, 1924
714634 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:714634)
unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Margaritidae Blainville, 1824; emended to Margaritesidae)
Family
Margarites Leach, 1847 (type by original designation)
Gazidae Hickman & J. H. McLean, 1990 · unaccepted
Margaritinae Stoliczka, 1868 · unaccepted (invalid: type genus (Margarita...)
invalid: type genus (Margarita Leach, 1819) a junior homonym
- Genus Eumargarita P. Fischer, 1885 accepted as Margarites Leach, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Tribe Gazini Hickman & J. H. McLean, 1990 accepted as Gazidae Hickman & J. H. McLean, 1990 accepted as Margaritidae Thiele, 1924 accepted as Margaritesidae Thiele, 1924
- Genus Margarita Leach, 1819 accepted as Margarites Leach, 1847 (Invalid: junior homonym of Margarita Leach, 1814 [Bivalvia, Pteriidae])
- Genus Margaritopsis Thiele, 1906 accepted as Margarites Leach, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Omphalomargarites T. Habe & Ki. Ito, 1965 accepted as Margarites Leach, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Pupillaria Dall, 1909 accepted as Margarites Leach, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Valvatella J. E. Gray, 1857 accepted as Margarites Leach, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Margaritinae Thiele, 1924) Thiele, J. (1924). Revision des Systems der Trochacea. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 11(1): 47-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.4830110104
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page(s): 67 [details] Available for editors
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Homonymy Homonymy with Margaritidae Blainville, 1824 (Bivalvia), a name also in current use, needs to be resolved
Homonymy Homonymy with Margaritidae Blainville, 1824 (Bivalvia), a name also in current use, needs to be resolved [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Margaritidae Thiele, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714634 on 2026-02-13
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Margaritinae Thiele, 1924) Thiele, J. (1924). Revision des Systems der Trochacea. <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 11(1): 47-74., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.4830110104
page(s): 67 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 61(1-2): 1-526., available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/040.061.0201 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 67 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Bouchet P., Rocroi J.P., Hausdorf B., Kaim A., Kano Y., Nützel A., Parkhaev P., Schrödl M. & Strong E.E. (2017). Revised classification, nomenclator and typification of gastropod and monoplacophoran families. <em>Malacologia.</em> 61(1-2): 1-526., available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/040.061.0201 [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
status source
Williams, S. T. (2012). Advances in molecular systematics of the vetigastropod superfamily Trochoidea. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 41(6): 571-595., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00552.x [details]
Other
additional source
Galkin, Yu. I. (1955). Bryukhonogiye mollyuski trokhidy dal'nevostochnykh i severnykh morey SSSR (Semeystvo Trochidae) / Брюхоногие моллюски трохиды дальневосточных и северных морей СССР (Семейство Trochidae) / Gastropod molluscs trochids of Far Eastern and northern seas of the USSR (Family Trochidae). <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR.</em> 57: 1-131 (in Russian)., available online at http://ashipunov.me/shipunov/school/books/galkin1955_trochidy_sssr.djvu
page(s): 72 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 72 [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Homonymy Homonymy with Margaritidae Blainville, 1824 (Bivalvia), a name also in current use, needs to be resolved [details]
