Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Mitrella ocellata
columbélida manchas blancas, White-spotted dove shell
Length: 15 mm.
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), midlittoral.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Buccinoidea
Family
Columbellidae
Genus
Mitrella
Species
ocellata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Buccinum cribrarium Lamarck, 1822, Columbella argus d'Orbigny, 1847, Mitrella argus (d'Orbigny, 1847), Voluta ocellata Gmelin, 1791 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Gulf of California to Gulf of Panama, Ecuador including Galapagos Islands also the western Atlantic
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Mitrella ocellata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8098. Accessed 13 June 2025.