This is a large, elongate-ovate species, only moderately elevated, and with a long narrow spatula. In coloration the exterior is whitish, with conspicuous brown rays in the rib interstices. The interior is silvery grey, with the brown external rays showing through towards the margin; the spatula is creamy-white, often stained with orange-brown.
Shell large, up to 77 mm. (3 inches) in length, elongate-ovate, moderately elevated, with the apex at about the anterior third. Sculptured with broadly rounded primar) radial ribs and weak interstitial cords. Colour: externally with whitish primary ribs and the interstices intermittently rayed with brown; internally buff to silvery-grey, slightly iridescent; spatula cream, clouded with light orange-brown. Radula—Formula 3+1 + 4+1 + 3. The radula resembles that of adansonii, canescens and plúm¬bea, in that the centrals are not in a horizontal line, the outer pair being lower than the inner pair. Also, a median central appears to be completely absent, as in vulgate. Length 65,0 – 77,0 mm; Width 51,0 – 57,0 cm; Height 21,0 mm