[3] The collector of the type shell, Guillaume Vasse, was a French big game hunter, who spent roughly two years (1904-1907) in central Mozambique with his wife, collecting mammals, birds, insects, molluscs (very few), and plants for the Paris Museum of Natural History.

[3] The type specimen is stored in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris (MNHN Mollusca No.

[3] The somewhat thin and fragile shell is small compared to what is known from the other achatinids in southern Africa, its length/height is less than 45 mm with about 7½ whorls.

(This description is in contradiction to Connolly (1925),[4] who probably attributes a wrongly identified shell 63.2 mm long to this taxon – a statement not repeated in his 1939 monograph.

[3] The sculpture consists of regular and close wrinkles resulting in a reticulate-granulate pattern, very prominent below the sutures but well visible on all whorls; in addition there are very faint growth striae.

[3] All specimens exhibit a close and fine zebra pattern with irregular, orange-brown flames on a yellowish-brown background; there is a very thin and deciduous periostracum.