Mitrella ocellata (Gmelin 1791)

Mitrella ocellata (Gmelin, 1791)

Voluta ocellata Gmelin, 1791:3455.

Columbella (Mitrella) cribraria Lamarck.—E. A. Smith, 1890a:262; 1890b:318.—Lamy, 1941:306.

Pyrene cribraria Lamarck.—Nicklès, 1950:96.—Knudsen, 1956: 30.

Nitidella ocellata Gmelin, 1791.—Warmke and Abbott, 1961: 112, pl. 20j.

Mitrella ocellata (Gmelin).—Rehder, 1962:130.—Radwin [1968]: 160

Columbella (Nitidella) ocellata (Gmelin).—Nordsieck, 1968: 125.

PREVIOUS ASCENSION RECORDS.—Smith (1890a, b).

PRESENT MATERIAL.—3 specimens (8.5 mm) Ascension, K. M. Hutchfield. 8 (11.6 mm) ASC 5; 1 (1.3 mm) ASC 8; 1 (9.7 mm) ASC 11; 2 (10.2 mm) ASC 12; 23 (9.2 mm) ASC 13; 9 (4 mm) ASC 14; 1 (8.9 mm) ASC 15; 8 (10 mm) ASC 16; 3 (11 mm) ASC 18; 5 (10.8 mm) ASC 20; 1 (8.5) ASC 21, R. B. Manning, May 1971.

DISTRIBUTION.—Occurs in the western Atlantic from Bermuda, south through Florida, the West Indies, and Central America to Venezuela (Radwin [1968]); Brazil (Rios, 1970); in tropical West Africa in Mauritania and Senegal (Nicklès, 1950); St. Helena (Smith, 1890a); Indian Ocean (Radwin [1968]; Knudsen, 1956; Nordsieck 1968); Gulfs of Aden and Aqaba (Lamy, 1941).