| 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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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]
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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Engina zepa is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.
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Euplica turturina, common name : the turtle dove shell, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.
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