Toffee-banded bubble shell
Hydatina zonata
- Usual depth0–45 m
- Water temperature20–30 °C
- Best monthsMarch and April
- How commonRare
About this species
Hydatina zonata, common name the zoned paper bubble, is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aplustridae.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Hydatina zonata”, 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: 4 records
- February: 4 records
- March: 5 records
- April: 7 records
- May: 1 records
- June: 1 records
- July: 1 records
- August: 1 records
- September: 1 records
- October: 3 records
- November: 1 records
- December: 0 records
Depth and water temperature
Depth
Mostly recorded at 0–45 m · Deepest record: 50 m
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 20–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Toffee-banded bubble shell, Zoned paperbubble, zoned paperbubble, Zoned Paper Bubble Snail
Names in 4 more languages
- German
- Gebänderte Papierblase
- Japanese
- ヒメヤカタガイ
- Korean
- 검은세로줄물고둥
- Simplified Chinese
- 經度泡螺
Other scientific names: Bulla cinctoria, Bulla circulata, Bulla velum, Bulla zonata, Hydatina cinctoria, Hydatina circulata, Hydatina inflata, Hydatina velum, Hydatina vexillum
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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).
- 99 open-data records from 1786 to 2026.
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