Habitat: it lives on rocky bottoms, in the infralittoral and circalittoral zones.
Distribution: it is pointed out all over the Mediterranean, where it seems it is locally common. Notes: shell solid, fusiform, apex sharp, often truncated. Whorls are either plane or not much convex, suture linear and thin, not much broad. Aperture stretched with columella straight, corrugated in the lower part and usually orange-coloured. Internally external lip shows from 6 to 8 little teeth, two upper teeth of which are broader, brown-orange in colour. Protoconch is about 1.5 whorls, generally brown-violaceous in colour. Colour pattern is variable: generally it is made by irregular flammulae dirty white in colour on a ground red-brown in colour. Operculum corneous, roundish in form. CLEMAM quotes among synonyms of this species even M. lanceolata, M. svelta and M. spelta. In our opinion it deals with three species to be gathered under a specific entity only that, according to some authors' opinion, is to be considered distinct from scripta. Indeed this form, more common in the Eastern Mediterranean, is slimmer and more conic in form, it has a siphonal cannel more tapered and shell and soft parts in different colour. Average measures of adult specimens are around 14-15 mm in height.