Shell colouring varies with brown, orange, and yellow streaks and tends to occur in roughly vertical banding.

The flesh can be a soft brown with a dark head, or a slightly translucent milky yellow in albino individuals.

They eat leaves, fruits and vegetables, faeces and occasionally dead animals or insects.

This species is hermaphroditic, and individuals possess both male and female sex organs but cannot self fertilise.

They are not observed to be obligatorily social animals but will gather to rest and mate, and are not actively aggressive to other individuals.