Temperate Northern Pacific realm. Warm Temperate Northwest Pacific province. Cold Temperate Northwest Pacific province. Central Indo-Pacific realm. South China Sea province. South Kuroshio province.
Boso Peninsula on Pacific coast and Oga Peninsula on Japan Sea coast south to Okinawa, Taiwan, and South China Sea. Sand bottom in intcrtidal zone to 20m deep (Okutani, 2000)
"Oliv. testa fusiformi, laevissima, nitente, spira acuminata, columella arcuata, parum sulcata, apertura oblonga, labro subdilatato, albida, castanea longitudinaliter conspicue fulgurata, columella castaneo-rufo fasciata. A highly polshid shell, very conspicuously painted with longitudinal, zigzag, chestnut bands upon a white ground, the columella having a reddish tinge of colour.". Recent. China Sea.
A type specimen is in BMNH 1986.300 (figured by Higo, Callomon & Goto, 2001). Recent. China Sea. This is possibly one of the specimens listed by Yen (1942: 235), of which one was illustrated on his Pl. 24 fig. 173.
"Lanceolato-fusiformis, cinerea, lineis rubris acutis angulatim undulatis infra suturam et supra balteum dense approximatis notata; spirae longato-conica, acuta, caeruleo alboque fasciata; balteo aureo, nonnunquam dimidiatim candido; columella lirae levata continua, angusta, arcuata, marginata, plicis terminalibus duabus perobliquis; labio abraso, margine fusco et albo.". Recent. Unknown locality.
