Margarites olivaceus

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Margarites olivaceus

Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Margarites olivaceus marginatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Margaritidae
Genus:	Margarites
Species:	M. olivaceus
Binomial name
*Margarites olivaceus* (Brown, 1827)
Synonyms
Eumargarita olivaceus (Brown, 1827) Margarita glauca Möller, 1842 Margarita harrisoni Hancock, 1846 Margarites glauca Möller, H.P.C., 1842 Margarites grosvenori Dall, 1926 Solariella olivaceus (Brown, 1827) Trochus argentatus Gould, A.A., 1841 Trochus glaucus (Möller, 1842) Turbo olivaceus Brown, 1827

Margarites olivaceus, common name the eastern olive margarite, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae.^[1]

Description

The size of the shell varies between 2 mm and 4 mm.

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This species occurs in circum-arctic waters; in the North Atlantic Ocean; in the Pacific Ocean off Oregon, USA; in the Sea of Japan

Brown, T. 1827. Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. [vi] + v, 52 pls. W. H. Lizars, D. Lizars and S. Highley: London. [True date: post 25 Nov.]
Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4: 76–97.
Dall, W. H. 1926. A new Margarites from Greenland. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 39: 59. [Stated date: 30 Jul 1926.]
Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 page(s): 60
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213

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Taxon identifiers
Margarites olivaceus	Wikidata: Q3138441 BOLD: 152828 EoL: 462630 EUNIS: 61822 GBIF: 5190279 iNaturalist: 733200 IRMNG: 10980731 ITIS: 69876 NBN: NBNSYS0000183918 NCBI: 479598 OBIS: 141822 Open Tree of Life: 281557 SeaLifeBase: 2010 WoRMS: 141822

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