Octomarginula ostheimerae | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
Order: | Lepetellida |
Family: | Fissurellidae |
Subfamily: | Zeidorinae |
Genus: | Octomarginula |
Species: | O. ostheimerae
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Binomial name | |
Octomarginula ostheimerae (Abbott, 1958)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Octomarginula ostheimerae is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets. [1]
This species was named by R. Tucker Abbott in 1958, in his publication on the marine mollusks of the island of Grand Cayman. [2] But by 1974, in his book "American Seashells", Abbott had decided that the shell was simply a juvenile of what is now called Montfortia emarginata. However, the species was re-instated by James McLean in a 2011 monograph on the subfamily Emarginulinae. [3]