Lined moonsnail
Tanea lineata
- Water temperature25–30 °C
- Best monthsMay, July, and August
- How commonRare
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 3 records
- February: 3 records
- March: 1 records
- April: 2 records
- May: 6 records
- June: 4 records
- July: 6 records
- August: 6 records
- September: 2 records
- October: 5 records
- November: 3 records
- December: 0 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 25–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Lined moonsnail, lined moonsnail
Names in 5 more languages
- German
- Gestreifte Mondschnecke
- Japanese
- マサメダマ
- Korean
- 줄무늬구슬우렁이
- Thai
- หอยพระจันทร์ลายขีด
- Simplified Chinese
- 細紋玉螺
Other scientific names: Cochlis lineata, Natica lineata, Naticarius lineatus, Notocochlis lineata
Similar species
- Wavy moonsnail
Tanea undulata
- Black-mouth moonsnail
Mammilla melanostoma
- Spotted Sand Shell
Notocochlis gualteriana
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.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 137 open-data records from 1798 to 2014.
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