It has a cream color
with two spiral zones which are colored on the middle-superior part
of the whorls with axial black and chocolate flames on a white pattern,
and on the middle-inferior part of the whorls with smaller spots
aligned in an irregular brown-chocolate on white pattern.
These two zones are separated by a yellowish white median band.
One of the biggest
species from Polynesia and also one
the commonest. In the Tuamotu's atolls, we can find this species
with smaller and less pronounced spots.
Size of the displayed
specimen : 150 mm
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