As Cantharidus
Though the specimens from the mentioned localities, differ in some respects from the description, I think this may depend upon their juvenile state, the largest specimen having only an altitude of 9 Mill, instead of 13, and 9 whorls instead of 12, with 11 lirae against 15—16 in the original description, 15—18 in Journ. Conch. 1879. As however the specimens vary in this respect, and the other characters agree, I think it unnecessary to give them even a new varietal name. The colour is slightly variable, being more or less painted with white. The top-whorls are in a few specimens painted with coral-red. The operculum is very thin, light yellow, with about 12 whorls, which under the microscope show fine radiating and spiral striae, which by their intercrossing, give a somewhat beaded appearance to the outer surface.
The animal has a brown mufle, the tentacles are moderately long, whitish, articulated with brown, the eyes black, with white rings. I see two cirri on each side of the epipodial line, but their number may have been larger, as the end of the foot has been lost.
The rhachidian tooth (R) has an elongated triangular body, with a small tricuspid cusp; the first (1), second (2) and third (3) laterals, have also elongated bodies and a cusp with a larger denticle, and smaller ones at the proximal and distal sides, one or two on the proximal side, depending perhaps on the position of the tooth, and invariably two on the distal side; the fourth (4) and fifth (5) have one denticle on the proximal side; the fourth two, the fifth three denticles on the distal side, their bodies are quadrangular. Of the numerous uncini the outer ones have two denticles, the other seem to have but one; these become smaller towards the margin of the radula, those of the median part, on the contrary, become larger from the centre towards the uncini. Number of rows about 33.

The shells from the Philippines perfectly fit the specimen figured by P. Fischer, but are of a darker green. Shape and sculpture are the same. Found in literature also as J. giliberti, a name used for a multitude of species in the Indo Pacific. This species is figured by Kosuge & Chino (1998: pl. 25 fig. 6), as Cantharidus (Kanekotrochus) gilberti.