{{short description|Species of sea snail}} {{italic title}} {{speciesbox |name = Red-lined bubble snail |image = Bullina Lineata.jpg |image_caption = |status = |taxon = Bullina lineata |authority = Gray, 1825 }} '''''Bullina lineata''''', common name the '''red-lined bubble snail''', is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Aplustridae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|212841|''Bullina lineata'' (Gray, 1825)||8 January 2019}}</ref>
thumb|A live ''Bullina lineata''
==Description== This snail has a milky-white mantle with iridescent blue edges. There are small black eyes on the head between the head shield processes. The shell has a white background with horizontally spiraling red brown bands which are crossed by vertical bands in the same color. The length is 15 to 25 mm.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nieuwenhuizen |first=Peter van |date=2024-04-28 |title=''Bullina lineata'': The Red-Lined Bubble Snail |url=https://jeffreysbayshellmuseum.wordpress.com/2024/04/28/bullina-lineata-the-red-lined-bubble-snail/ |access-date=2025-09-16 |website=Friends of the Jeffreys Bay Shell Museum |language=en}}</ref>
==Distribution== This species occurs in the sublittoral zone of the Indo-Pacific from Japan to Australia and New Zealand.<ref>{{cite book|author=Powell A. W. B.|author-link=Arthur William Baden Powell|title=New Zealand Mollusca|publisher= William Collins Publishers Ltd|location= Auckland, New Zealand |year=1979 |isbn=0-00-216906-1}}</ref><ref>{{citeq|Q115391200}}</ref>
==Ecology== These snails are primarily found in coral reefs and rocky shores in the Indo-West Pacific.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oskars |first=Trond R. |last2=Malaguias |first2=Manuel Antonio E. |date=November 2020 |title=Systematic revision of the Indo-West Pacific colourful bubble-snails of the genus Lamprohaminoea Habe, 1952 (Cephalaspidea : Haminoeidae) |url=https://connectsci.au/is/article-abstract/34/7/727/66969/Systematic-revision-of-the-Indo-West-Pacific?redirectedFrom=fulltext |access-date=January 2, 2026 |website=Invertebrate Systematics}}</ref>
The red-lined bubble snail has a diet consisting of Polychaete worms, found in sand patches on rock platforms<ref name=":0">{{cite web |last1=Edgar |first1=GJ |title=''Bullina lineata'' |url=https://reeflifesurvey.com/species/bullina-lineata/ |website=Reef Life Survey |publisher=Reef Species of the World |access-date=2 January 2026}}</ref>.
==Conservation Status==
This species is found sporadically, but has not been evaluated by IUCN.<ref name=":0" />
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==External links== * {{Malacologia14radula}} * {{sealifephotos|212841}}
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Category:Aplustridae Category:Gastropods described in 1822 Category:Taxa named by John Edward Gray