The surface is smooth and shiny, their basic color is brown-orange, with 3-5 wide light blue transversal bands.

The base is whitish or bluish, with fine white teeth.

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

This species occurs in the northern and central Pacific Ocean, in the seas along the Philippines, Melanesia, Guam, Micronesia, Polynesia, Tuamotu Islands and Hawaii, excluding the Galapagos.

At night they can be found on the reef or small caves, feeding on sponges or corals.