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
Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. Kilburn R.N., Marais J.P. & Fraussen K. (2010) Buccinidae. Pp. 16-52, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp.