The color of the shell is yellowish whitish, tinged with green, and radiately striped with broad or narrow uninterrupted, axial, crimson flames.

These lirae are granulose, rather coarse, with broad interspaces, which are frequently occupied by revolving lirulae or striae.

The parietal wall is scarcely callous, showing the color of the base, and with a white spiral rib in the middle.

The conspicuously radiate color pattern and the sculpture, consisting of coarse granulose lirae with interstitial lirulae both above and below, as well as the wide umbilical tract and eroded corneous or orange apex, will serve to distinguish this form.

This species occurs on intertidal rock boulders in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and in the Western Pacific.