Octomarginula arabica is a species of sea snail or limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[1]

Octomarginula arabica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Genus: Octomarginula
Species:
O. arabica
Binomial name
Octomarginula arabica
Adams, 1852
Synonyms
  • Emarginula arabica Adams, 1852 (original combination)

References

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  1. ^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Octomarginula arabica (A. Adams, 1852). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585748 on 2012-10-22
  • Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp.
  • 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