The whorls of the spire are distinct and mucronated (= ending in an abruptly tapering point).

The body whorl has eleven or twelve narrow and slightly elevated longitudinal ribs, the surface of which, of a yellow ground, is crossed transversely by a great number of very fine blackish lines, which approach alternately, two by two.

The intervals of the ribs are marked with very thin and delicate longitudinal striae, and with brown and whitish lines undulating in bars.

The aperture is ovate, alike whitish, with several small brown bands upon the edge of the outer lip which, externally, is covered by the last rib.

[2] This marine species occurs in the Red Sea; in the Indian Ocean from Northern Transkei, South Africa to East Africa (Somalia, Tanzania, Mozambique, Kenya, Madagascar), off the Mascarene Basin, Aldabra, Chagos, Reunion, Seychelles; in the Indo-West Pacific; off New Zealand and Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia).