The dorsum surface is smooth and shiny, the basic color is reddish or brown-orange, with three wide blue-gray transversal bands.

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

Mantle and foot are well developed, with external antennae.

These cowries live on coral reef in tropical intertidal and subtidal water up to 40 metres.

They can be found in ledges and small coral caves at night, as they start feeding only at dusk.