title: Ethalia striolata
text: # Ethalia striolata
  
  Ethalia striolata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
  
  ## Description
  
  The subglobulose, subperforate shell has a discoidal shape and is transversely striate. The five whorls are slightly convex. They are ornamented with very narrow transverse, white articulated lines. The base of the shell is smooth, reddish-brown maculated at the periphery, with a reddish zone around the umbilical region. The callus is white, small, partly concealing the umbilicus. The aperture is oval.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, off Mozambique, East Africa, Central and East Indian Ocean, Indo-Malaysia, Indonesia, Cocos Keeling Islands. and off Borneo.
  
  