The base may be white, purple or cream and the wide and sinuous aperture shows long labial teeth.

In the living cowries the mantle is transparent, with short sensorial papillae.

This species is distributed in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean along the Seychelles, in the West Pacific along South East Asia, the Philippines, Melanesia and Australia.

They live in tropical subtidal waters and in continental shelf at about 5–25 metres (16–82 ft) of depth, usually on coral reef or under rocks.

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