The surface is smooth and shiny, the dorsum basic color is whitish or yellowish, with a variegated orange-brown, yellow ocher or reddish indistinct spotting on the dorsum.

The base is whitish or cream, sometimes with shades of orange and some dark spots near the edge, while the teeth are usually large and white.

In the living cowries the mantle is greyish, with quite long tree-shaped sensorial papillae.

), in the Red Sea (introduced) and in the eastern Atlantic Ocean along the West African coast (from Morocco to Angola, including Ascension Island, Canaries and Cape Verde Islands).

During the day they are usually hidden under rocks, in crevices or in underwater meadows of Posidonia oceanica, as they start feeding at dusk.