# Octomarginula

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{{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](/source/James_Hamilton_McLean), 2011
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = ''See text''
| synonyms_ref = 
| synonyms =
|type_species= ''Emarginula ostheimerae'' <small>Abbott, 1958</small> 
}}

'''''Octomarginula''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [sea snail](/source/sea_snail)s or [limpet](/source/limpet)s, marine [gastropod](/source/gastropod) [mollusk](/source/mollusk)s in the [family](/source/Family_(taxonomy)) [Fissurellidae](/source/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](/source/Octomarginula_arabica)'' <small>([Adams](/source/Arthur_Adams_(zoologist)), 1852)</small>
*''[Octomarginula natlandi](/source/Octomarginula_natlandi)'' <small>(Durham, 1950)</small>
* ''[Octomarginula nodulosa](/source/Octomarginula_nodulosa)'' <small>(A. Adams, 1852)</small>
*''[Octomarginula ostheimerae](/source/Octomarginula_ostheimerae)'' <small>(Abbott, 1958)</small>
* ''[Octomarginula sculptilis](/source/Octomarginula_sculptilis)'' <small>(A. Adams, 1852)</small>
*''[Octomarginula scutellata](/source/Octomarginula_scutellata)'' <small>([Deshayes](/source/G%C3%A9rard_Paul_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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