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Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Engina mendicaria, common name striped engina or bumble bee snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.[1]
Engina mendicaria | |
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Shell of Engina mendicaria | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Pisaniidae |
Genus: | Engina |
Species: | E. mendicaria |
Binomial name | |
Engina mendicaria (Linnaeus, 1758) | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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The shell size varies between 10 mm and 20 mm. This shell shows a white or yellowish background with a few transversal black bands and resembles the yellow and black pattern of wasps and bees (hence a common name).
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Tanzania, in the tropical Indo-Pacific and Australia.
These carnivore sea snails live on rocky shores and sand beds. They are mainly nocturnal.
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