{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Octomarginula scutellata (MNHN-IM-2000-4806).jpeg | image_caption = Shell of ''Octomarginula scutellata'' (lectotype at MNHN, Paris) | taxon = Octomarginula | authority = McLean, 2011 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''See text'' | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = |type_species= ''Emarginula ostheimerae'' <small>Abbott, 1958</small> }}
'''''Octomarginula''''' is a genus of sea snails or limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.<ref name="WoRMS">Bouchet, P. (2012). ''Octomarginula'' McLean, 2011. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585743 on 2012-10-22</ref>
==Species== Species within the genus ''Octomarginula'' include: *''Octomarginula arabica'' <small>(Adams, 1852)</small> *''Octomarginula natlandi'' <small>(Durham, 1950)</small> * ''Octomarginula nodulosa'' <small>(A. Adams, 1852)</small> *''Octomarginula ostheimerae'' <small>(Abbott, 1958)</small> * ''Octomarginula sculptilis'' <small>(A. Adams, 1852)</small> *''Octomarginula scutellata'' <small>(Deshayes, 1863)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * 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. page(s): 413
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Category:Fissurellidae Category:Taxa named by James Hamilton McLean
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