Distribution: Tropical Atlantic realm. Tropical Northwestern Atlantic province. Southwestern Caribbean ecoregion (Panama). Western Caribbean ecoregion (Honduras).
RV 7307. Honduras, Utila Island; offshore in 4.5-7.5 m, white sand. Scale bar is 1 cm.
"Shell average size for subgenus, cylindrical, with only slightly rounded shoulder; spire low; body whorl colored yellowish-tan, overlaid with dense, close-packed pattern of small, dark brown triangles and zig-zags; 2 wide bands of darker brown triangles present around body whorl, one around anterior one-third and one around area just posterior of midbody line; sutural area marked with large, evenly-spaced yellow patches and numerous fine black hairlines; spire whorls glazed-over with dark purple-brown enamel; aperture and columellar area white; columella with 15-20 thin plicae; fasciole yellow-tan marked with 2 rows of large dark brown checkers; protoconch proportionally small, colored dark purple-brown.". Recent. Off Portobelo, Panama.
Three paratypes in E.J. Petuch collection.
This was a subspecies of Oliva reticularis Lamarck, 1811, for Sterba (2004).
