The basic color of the dorsum is brown, with clear spots and many thin longitudinal lines.

Almost in the middle of the dorsum there is a clearer longitudinal band.

In the living cowry the mantle is brown and thin.

Mauritia eglantina is a species of Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Ocean, ranging from eastern Polynesia and Micronesia, Samoa Islands, New Caledonia up to Southeast Asia, Indonesia, Philippines and Northern Australia.

This species prefers rather shallow waters, lagoon reef habitats and coral rocks at 2–15 metres (6 ft 7 in – 49 ft 3 in) of depth.