Clivipollia incarnata is characterized by the spiral sculpture consisting of rather sharp cords ornamented with a dark brown spiral line on an orange-brown to reddish background. Clivipollia pulchra looks much similar at first glance but differs by the broader spiral cords separated by narrower interspaces with fewer secondary spiral cords, by the brown spiral lines that are situated inside the spiral interspaces (rather than on top of the spiral cords), by the brighter orange colour, by the upper spire whorls that are slightly darker and the more stretched siphonal canal.

Known from the Red Sea, Aden, along the East African coast to Mauritius Island in the south and to Oman in the East. Records from the West Pacific belong to "Engina" astricta.