Octomarginula scutellata

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Octomarginula scutellata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Zeidorinae
Genus: Octomarginula
Species:
O. scutellata
Binomial name
Octomarginula scutellata
(Deshayes, 1863)
Synonyms [1]
  • Emarginula scutellata Deshayes, 1863
  • Hemitoma scutellata(Deshayes, 1863)

Octomarginula scutellata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets. [1] [2]

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Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Réunion.

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References

  1. 1 2 Bouchet, P. (2012). Octomarginula scutellata (Deshayes, 1863). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585749 on 2012-12-31
  2. McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). Malacologia 54(1-2): 407-427.