Shell ovate: with waving or zigzag transverse flames of brown or red; and very numerous minute well defined dots of red or brown, with white shadows on their right side, somewhat in irregular waving or zigzag series, on a whitish ground: apex acute: spire with moderately convex outlines: whorls nearly five, moderately convex, a little flattened along the middle, with a moderately impressed suture: aperture elliptical: with a small umbilicus and groove issuing from it, which are sometimes concealed by the labial deposit. This species was at first mistaken for T. pulla.
Mean divergence about 60°; length of spire .16 inch; total length .31 inch; breadth .19 inch.

Eulithidium affine (C. B. Adams, 1850) Stained Pheasant
Distribution: Texas to lower Caribbean; Brazil. Size: 5 to 8 mm.
Description: Color variegated, rose-brownish to rose-greenish base with spirally arranged, somewhat regularly spaced red spots, usually paired with white dots and with dark green, reddish-brown or black zigzag-type splotches; shell shape high, conic, and broader at base; sculpture smooth with the exception of microscopic spiral and axial striae; spire stout with nuclear whorls relatively low and flat; aperture ovate; inner lip with a narrow parietal shield; outer lip thin, slightly flared, crossing over upper parietal shield and columella; umbilicus slitlike.
Habitat: In seagrass beds, primarily turtle grass; also on algae and coral reefs at depths up to 63 m (207 ft).
Synonym: Tricolia affinis cruenta Robertson, 1958.