Marginella bairstowi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.[1]

Marginella bairstowi
Apertural (right) and abapertural (left) views of a shell of M. bairstowi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Marginellidae
Genus: Marginella
Species:
M. bairstowi
Binomial name
Marginella bairstowi
G. B. Sowerby III, 1886

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Distribution

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References

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  • Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 113
  • Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp
  • Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218.