Distribution: Central Indo-Pacific realm. Western Coral Triangle province. Eastern Philippines ecoregion (Philippines). Eastern Coral Triangle province. Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Sterba, 2004).
RV 7095c. Philippines, Romblon province, Tablas Island, depth 30 m, sand and coral. Scale bar is 1 cm.
"Shell cylindrically oblong, slightly swollen near the upper part of the last whorl, very glossy, smooth, yellowish, with narrow, rather distant, rufous fulgurations, leaving a narrow pale zone below the suture, without markings. Spire short, conical. Apex blunt, the embryonic whorls rosy in fresh specimens. Whorls 7, rounded, the post-embryonic ones callous, with faint traces of the rufous streaks. Sutures widely channelled. Aperture oblong, narrow and channelled above, becoming gradually wider below, the upper angle narrowed by a callosity on the body whorl, interior light violet. Outer lip rather sharp and curved above, thick and nearly straight near the middle and below. Columellar lip slightly callous in the adult specimens, with about 25 plaits, of which the 17 upper ones are rather short, the lower nearly reach the shallow basal sinus. Alt. 22, Lat. 14½., Apert. alt. 17½., Lat. 2¼ Mill.". Recent. No type locality selected. Illustrated later by Schepman (1911: Pl. 22 fig. 1a-b).
This was a valid species for Sterba (2004).
