| Acteon octavii | |
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| Shell of Acteon octavii (syntype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
| Family: | Acteonidae |
| Genus: | Acteon |
| Species: | †A. octavii |
| Binomial name | |
| †Acteon octavii (Vasseur, 1882) | |
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Acteon octavii is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Acteonidae. [1]
Fossils of this marine species have been found in Eocene strata in Loire-Atlantique, France.
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