Commonly crawls on sandy bottom in meso littoral zone.

[5] Paratectonatica tigrina can be found in the Eastern Africa, Southeastern Asia and Australia.

[3][6] In some countries (mainly Indonesia and Japan) these sea snails are collected for food and the shells are traded.

[4] This species is known in the fossil record from the Oligocene epoch to the Quaternary period (age range 23.03 to 0.0 million years ago.).

Fossils have been collected in the sediments of Austria, Germany, India, Italy and Thailand.