It is commonly known as the white strawberry cockle and is found in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean.

[1] It has a pair of white, thick, sculptured valves with a nacreous coating on the interior.

Its range extends from the East African coast and Madagascar to Polynesia, Japan and northern Australia.

It has a symbiotic relationship with certain micro-algae, zooxanthellae, which live in the mantle and other soft tissues.

Its symbionts need a lower light intensity for photosynthesis to take place than do those of the closely related species Fragum unedo.