Shell to 166 mm

Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea through the tropical Indo-Pacific to Polynesia and Hawaii.

Shell color yellow or pinkish orange with ivory flammules, or ivory with pinkish orange subsutural band and squarish spots; outline of whorls flat with slightly indented subsutural band; protoconch of 3 1/2 conical whorls; subsutural band faintly noded on early whorls, flat later, defined by a groove which is punctate early and smooth later; axial ribs numerous, curved, closely spaced on early whorls; later whorls smooth except for subsutural groove; aperture quadrate: columella almost straight.
[Bratcher & Cernohorsky]

This species has neither radula nor poison gland (Rudman, 1969). It exhibits two distinct color patterns, one almost the reverse of the other, though the sculpture and shape remain constant.