The shell is typically pale yellow in color and covered in brown or dark red splotches that radiate outwards across the snail's whorls.

[5][6] It is listed as critically endangered in Pennsylvania, near threatened in Virginia, and least concern in North Carolina.

[7] The species has gradually moved up through the floodplains of larger rivers into the interior of the Piedmont region.

Within these plains, snails are typically found around or in rotting logs, hollow trees, or in the leaf litter in deciduous forested areas.

[1] In 2008, the snail was discovered to be preyed on by the larvae of the parastitic sciomyzid fly Pherbellia albovaria.