"Shell large for subgenus, heavy, elongated, with slightly convex sides; spire elevated, protracted; color cream-yellow, overlaid with an occluding pattern of light brown triangles of varying sizes; body whorl with two bands of dark brown spots and flammules; adult specimens with a pale blue glaze over the anterior half of the body whorl; interior of aperture yellow, columellar area purple, with 23 to 30 thin, well-developed plications; anterior tip of columella brownish-purple with one large, deep purple plication anterior to the fasciole; spire whorls partially covered with a dark purple callus. Holotype: Length 55 mm, width 22 mm, collected at 20 meter-depth off Cocos Island, Costa Rica, by Hookah diver."*.
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith