Bumble bee snail

About this species

Engina mendicaria, common name striped engina or bumble bee snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pisaniidae.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Engina mendicaria”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 28 records
February: 34 records
March: 28 records
April: 25 records
May: 23 records
June: 26 records
July: 46 records
August: 27 records
September: 36 records
October: 32 records
November: 20 records
December: 14 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 1–4 m · Deepest record: 4 m

0–10 m: 9 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 3–30 °C

2–4 °C: 1 records
4–6 °C: 0 records
6–8 °C: 0 records
8–10 °C: 0 records
10–12 °C: 0 records
12–14 °C: 0 records
14–16 °C: 0 records
16–18 °C: 0 records
18–20 °C: 2 records
20–22 °C: 1 records
22–24 °C: 4 records
24–26 °C: 36 records
26–28 °C: 68 records
28–30 °C: 142 records

Photos

(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Takaaki Hattori, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Jono, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Javier, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Takaaki Hattori, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Prathamesh Khedwan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Bumble bee snail, Bumblebee snail, Striped engina, bumble bee snail, bumblebee snail, striped engina

Names in 4 more languages

German: Hummelschnecke
French: Escargot-abeille
Japanese: ノシガイ
Simplified Chinese: 斑馬峨螺

Other scientific names: Columbella mendicaria, Pusiostoma mendicaria, Voluta mendicaria

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Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
445 open-data records from 1758 to 2012.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.