Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Papers on Mollusca of Japan, Vol. 2
Shell depressed-turbinate, moderately solid but not thick, openly umbilicate; pale yellowish, encircled by many dark red-brown dotted or spotted lines and bands, those above usually more or less con?uent, and usually marked with radiating zigzag light streaks; the earlier whorls purplish-brown; sculptured with minute, thread like striae, coarser and more separated on the early whorls. Whorls 45, very convex, the last rounded or sometimes indistinctly angular in front, convex below. Aperture circular, oblique, bluish inside, the peristome built forward beyond a very slight expansion, in fully mature individuals; in contact with the preceding whorl for a very short distance only.
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