Habitat: Found in shallow-water Characteristics: Maximum reported size: 90 mm. The shell is high-spired and mostly dirty-cream colored, with random blotches of brown and purplish-brown. The aperture of adults is a rich orange, paler towards the interior. The outer lip has seven white ridge-like teeth. The columella and parietal wall have numerous white ridges. The operculum is brown. The 5.5-whorled protoconch is yellowish brown or dark brown. The shell has several strong varices, and a coarse sculpture of spiral cords separated by one or two flattish threads. Nodules of varying length are formed where the cords intersect with indistinct axial ridges. The shell appears distinctively lopsided when viewed apically. This is caused by three or four prominent hums formed by enlarged nodules, separated from the outer lip by a relatively flat area.