Engina lineata

Engina lineata
Shell of Engina lineata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Pisaniidae
Genus: Engina
Species:
E. lineata
Binomial name
Engina lineata
(Reeve, 1846)
Synonyms

Ricinula lineata Reeve, 1846 (original combination)

Engina lineata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.

Description

Shell size 12 mm.

(Original description) The shell is ovate, stout, and solid, and is longitudinally nodosely plicate. It is white in ground color and is encircled by lead-black lines.

The species is superficially similar to Engina zonalis (Lamarck, 1822), but is slightly smaller, c.8.0 cm-10.0 cm in length. The blackish spiral zones are narrow, continuous lines, and at the sutures are wide-spaced, round or crescent-shaped black spots. The aperture is white and not purplish-brown as in E.zonalis.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific; also off Australia (New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia) and the Philippines.

References

  1. ↑ Engina lineata (Reeve, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ↑ Reeve, L.A. (1846). Monograph of the genus Ricinula. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 3, pl. 1-6 and unpaginated text. London: Reeve & co. p. sp. 51. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
  3. ↑ Powell, A.W.B. (1971). "Powell". Powell. 6: 159. Retrieved 6 June 2026. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is under a CC BY 4.0 license.