Margarita
Shell of Margarita maxima (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
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 Margarita Leach, 1814 [Bivalvia, Pteriidae], a synonym of Pinctada Röding, 1798. The accepted name is Margarites Gray, 1847

Species

Species brought into synonymy

• Margarita actinophora Dall, 1890 : synonym of Calliotropis actinophora (Dall, 1890)
• Margarita angulata A. Adams, 1853 : synonym of Peasiella tantilla (Gould, 1849)
• Margarita cumingii A. Adams, 1851: synonym of Broderipia cumingii A. Adams, 1851
• Margarita expansa G.B. Sowerby I, 1838: synonym of Photinula expansa (G.B. Sowerby I, 1838)
• Margarita imperialis Dall, 1881: synonym of Lischkeia imperialis (Dall, 1881)
• Margarita infundibulum  : synonym of Calliotropis infundibulum (Watson, 1879)
• Margarita lissocona Dall, 1881: synonym of Calliotropis lissocona (Dall, 1881)
• Margarita marmoreus Pease, 1861: synonym of Calliotrochus marmoreus (Pease, 1861)
• Margarita ponsonbyi Preston, 1908: synonym of Calliotrochus marmoreus (Pease, 1861)
• Margarita regalis Verrill & S. Smith, 1880: synonym of Calliotropis regalis (Verrill & Smith, 1880)
• Margarita striatula (Garrett, 1857): synonym of Calliotrochus marmoreus (Pease, 1861)
• Margarita subantarctica Strebel, 1908:^[2] synonym of Margarella subantarctica (Strebel, 1908)
• Margarita tasmanica Tenison-Woods, 1877: synonym of Truncatella scalarina Cox, 1867
• Margarita undulata G.B. Sowerby I, 1838: synonym of Margarites undulata (G.B. Sowerby, I, 1838)

Species inquirenda

• Margarita carinata A. Adams, 1853
• Margarita ianthina Gould, 1861
• Margarita lacazei var. nigricans Vélain, 1877
• Margarita lenticula Gould, 1861
• Margarita maxima G. B. Sowerby II, 1878 (use in recent literature currently undocumented)
• Margarita persica Gould, 1852
• Margarita pulchella Reeve, 1848
• Margarita pulcherrima G. B. Sowerby II, 1878 (use in recent literature currently undocumented)
• Margarita sigaretina G. B. Sowerby I, 1838 (use in recent literature currently undocumented)
• Margarita tessellata A. Adams, 1853
• Margarita variabilis A. Adams, 1853
• Margarita vulgaris G. B. Sowerby I, 1838 (use in recent literature currently undocumented)