"Shell of average size for subgenus, slender, with high spire: shoulder sloping, almost nonexistent; color orange-cream overlaid with dense pattern of tan zig-zags and dots; body whorl encircled with two bands of darker tan patches; edge of suture marked with large dark brown and yellow dashes; spire whorls partially covered with dark tan callus; aperture white; columella and fasciole stained dark tan. Holotype: Length 52 mm, width 22 mm, trawled by commercial fishermen from 20 meter depth off Madras, India, Bay of Bengal.".
Taxonomy:
This was a junior synonym of Oliva irisans Lamarck, 1811, for Sterba (2004).
Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical):
Ed Baker,
Katherine Bouton
Alice Heaton
Dimitris Koureas,
Laurence Livermore,
Dave Roberts,
Simon Rycroft,
Ben Scott,
Vince Smith