Margarites refulgens is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Margaritidae, the turban snails.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Margaritidae |
| Genus: | Margarites |
| Species: | M. refulgens
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| Binomial name | |
| Margarites refulgens (E.A. Smith, 1907)
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Description
editThe height of the shell attains 6 mm, its diameter also 6 mm.
Margarites refulgens has a unaccepted status, and its accepted name is Margarella refulgens.[1]
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in Antarctic waters (the Weddell Sea) and subantarctic waters off the South Sandwich Islands at depths between 200 m and 1100 m.
References
edit- ^ a b Margarites refulgens (Smith, 1907). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 20 April 2010.
- Smith, E. A. 1907. Mollusca. II. Gastropoda. National Antarctic Expedition 1901-1904, Natural History 2: 12 pp., 2 pls. British Museum (Natural History): London.
- Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp
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