Marginella mosaica

Marginella mosaica
A live individual of Marginella mosaica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Marginellidae
Genus: Marginella
Species: M. mosaica
Binomial name
Marginella mosaica
Sowerby II, 1846
Synonyms

Marginella langleyi Sowerby III, 1892

Marginella mosaica, commonly known as the mosaic marginella, is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae.

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