Margarites vahlii

Margarites vahlii, common name the Vahl margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae.[1]

Margarites vahlii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Margarites
Species:
M. vahlii
Binomial name
Margarites vahlii
(Møller, 1842)
Synonyms[1]
  • Margarita acuminata auct. non Sowerby, 1838
  • Margarita vahlii Möller, 1842
  • Margarites angulatus Galkin, 1955
  • Margarites hypolispus Dall, 1919
  • Margarites johnsoni Dall, W.H., 1921
  • Margarites mighelsi Rehder, H.A., 1937

Description

The height of the shell attains 1.2 mm, its diameter 1.8 mm. The small, solid shell has a turbinate shape. It is pale flesh color, polished, smooth. It has five well rounded whorls, including a minute subglobular nucleus. The suture is very distinct, not appressed. The base of the shell is rounded with a narrow deep perforate umbilicus. The simple aperture is subcircular. The inner lip is hardly thickened. The body is covered with a thin coat of enamel.[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Greenland, Canada, in the Arctic Ocean north of Bering Strait, at depths between 4 m and 931 m.

References
  1. Margarites vahlii (Møller, 1842). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
  2. Dall (1919) Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean; Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, vol. 56 (1920)
  • Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4: 76–97.
  • Dall, W. H. 1921. Nomenclatorial notes. Nautilus 35: 49–50.
  • "Margarites vahlii". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
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