Amaea arabicaAmaea arabica is a species of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae.TaxonomyKiener and G.B. Sowerby II recorded this Recent species under the name "Scalaria decussata Lamarck, 1804", originally established for a fossil species from the Eocene of the Paris Basin. The names Scalaria arabica and Amaea sowerbyi were both established for Sowerby's "Scalaria decussata", and the name Cirsotrema kieneri was established for Kiener's "Scalaria decussata".DescriptionThe shell grows to a length of 25 mm.DistributionThis marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean south to Mauritius; off Australia.