Mitra bovei: Shell up to 60 mm (about 2,5 inches) in length, elongate-ovate, solid, sutures distinct and adpressed on last whorl. Whorls 7-8, apart from white, cylindrical nuclear whorls, spire whorls flat-sided or slightly convex. Post-nuclear whorls with 4 or 5 axially lirate spiral grooves, penultimate whorl with 4-7 grooves and body whorl with 12-20 distant and fairly regularly spaced, fine striae and 6-10 oblique cords at the base. Sutures with either prominent or almost obsolete, axially oriented crenulations and occasionally with axial lirae extending over 1 or 2 presutural spiral grooves. Aperture narrow and elongate, longer than the spire, smooth and greenish-brown or purplish brown within; outer lip thickened and bluntly crenulate, parietal wall brown, lower part of columella white and calloused and with 4 or 5 prominent folds. Siphonal canal straight and slightly calloused, siphonal notch distinct. Variable in colour, generally off-white, ornamented with irregular and often rhomboidal small spots and 2 broad, interrupted greenish brown transverse bands and occasionally orange-brown spiral lines. Periostracum thin, translucent and brown in colour.
Measurements: Length between 23 and 60 mm, width between 10 and 19 mm

Mitra bovei: Range: Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea, to the Persian Gulf and western India.
Habitat: From the intertidal zone to a depth of 15 fathoms, on sand and rock substratum. Un-common.