Octomarginula ostheimerae
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| Octomarginula ostheimerae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Zeidorinae |
| Genus: | Octomarginula |
| Species: | O. ostheimerae |
| Binomial name | |
| Octomarginula ostheimerae (Abbott, 1958) | |
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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]