Engina mendicaria

Bumblebee Snail

Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Pisaniidae

Collected by: Th.; Thaanum DitlevThaanum Ditlev →X.M.M. Th →
Collector number: 1707,u
Date: April 4, 1945
Locality: Ryukyu Islands; Loochoos; Okinawa; Chotan
Region: Ryukyu Islands
Record type: Preservedspecimen

56 Bishop specimens of Engina mendicaria · collected 1920–1995Species page ›

Engina mendicaria observed alive

This specimen was collected in 1945. Since 2000, iNaturalist observers have recorded 145 research-grade sightings in the wild, most recently on 2026-09-04.

2026-09-04

Marsa Alam, Red Sea Governorate, Egypt

(c) Hans Hillewaert, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

2026-08-07

Red Sea, EG

(c) Martin Scheidleder, some rights reserved (CC BY)

2026-07-25

Province Sud, Nouvelle-Calédonie

(c) Joëlle VINCENT, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2026-07-25

Province Sud, Nouvelle-Calédonie

(c) Joëlle VINCENT, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2026-07-12

Province Sud, Nouvelle-Calédonie

(c) Carole BERNARD, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

2026-07-03

日本、〒907-0332 沖縄県石垣市伊原間

(c) Tomioka Masafumi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Cite this specimen

Engina mendicaria. BPBM 258321. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 36724629. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/mo/258321.

Record sources

GBIF occurrence 36724629 ↗
Data license: CC0
Last harvested October 27, 2026