The length of the shell varies between 36.7 mm and 86 mm.

The shell is yellowish white and chestnut-black, stained and obscurely banded. The aperture is yellowish white. The border of the outer lip is black-spotted.^[2]

The species is found in Western Africa, Indian Ocean, Malesia,the Philippines,Indonesia, New Caledonia, the South China Sea, Australia.^[1]

Fossils have been found in Quaternary strata of Saudi Arabia (age range: 0.126 to 0.012 Ma).

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