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

They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.

The narrow shell contains a convexly depressed, tuberculated spire.

Its color is yellowish olivaceous, indistinctly white-banded in the middle.

[2] This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off the Mascarene Basin and off Eastern Africa; off French Polynesia and Hawaii; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland).