Up to 2 cm, with dull brown coloration, occasionally darker on upper whorls, and with very faint pattern of wide zigzag lines (pattern fading in larger specimens).
Habitat: on rocks, mangrove trunks and drift wood.[1]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific Region and off the
Philippines.
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