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Cheilea equestris (Linné, 1758)
Patella equestris Linné, 1758:780 [O. Indico].
Mitrularia dillwyni (Gray).—E. A. Smith, 1890b:320 [Ascension].
Cheila [sic] equestris, Packer, 1968 [Ascension].
Cheilea equestris Linné.—Abbott., 1968a:98, figs, [southeastern Florida to Brazil].
DISTRIBUTION.—Cosmopolitan according to Nordsieck (1968:94), occurring in all major marine faunal zones except eastern Pacific. Keen (1971: 458) suggests that it may occur there also, known under the name Cheilea cepacea (Broderip). Cernohorsky (1972) reported it from the western Pacific.
- bibliographic citation
- Rosewater, Joseph. 1975. "An annotated list of the marine mollusks of Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-41. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.189
