[2] Like all species within the genus Conus, these snails are predatory and venomous.

This species occurs in the Western Atlantic, at depths to 50 metres, and in the Caribbean Sea and in the Gulf of Mexico.

The shell is regularly grooved throughout the body whorl, with the interstices plane or granular.

The color is orange-red, raised portions with very narrow chestnut revolving lines, white clouded, especially in the middle, forming an irregular band, which is mottled and bordered with chestnut.

[4] Minimum recorded depth is 0 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 30 m.[3] At Barbados, the species seems to prefer offshore banking reefs where the water is clean, clear and well oxygenated although in past times it appears to have inhabited much shallower waters close to shore, before environmental degradation.