Shell: small to moderately small, solid, ovate to rhomboidal , ranging from 12-33 mm.
Spire concealed. Teeth: 9 to 13 columellar teeth; 10 to 14 labral teeth.
Sculpture: smooth, porcelaneous; margins thickened and nodular.
Aperture elongate, narrow, slightly wider at anterior.
Exterior colour pale green grey, pale blue or deep yellow; dosum darker, with 3 transvers grey bands and may have yellow orange ring; base white; mantle line indistinct.
Specimens
Myora light, Australia Size: 31mm Collected: 1988 Collected live on sand.
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Big Sandy Reef 21-546, Australia Size: 20mm Collected: 1993 At 10 m depth. Taken on scuba.
Myora Reef, Queensland, Australia Size: 27.21mm Collected: Unknown Collected from on sand on intertidal sand flats with shallow pools by hand [low tide] at low tide. Collected by Robert Ellis 14/5/1988
Myora light, Australia Size: mm Collected: 1989 under coral slab in 50cm of water on snad, mud and coral rubble bottom 0.4m tide
Gould Reef, Australia Size: 30mm Collected: Unknown No data.
Wreck Island, Australia Size: 25mm Collected: 1975 Under coral slabs on reef.
Sykes Reef, Australia Size: 23mm Collected: 2019 under slab of dead coral on weather edge of reef.
Lamont Reef, Queensland, Australia Size: 23.82mm Collected: Unknown Collected on intertidal coral reef by hand [low tide]. Collected by Robert Ellis 8/9/1998
Lamont Reef, Queensland, Australia Size: 22.11mm Collected: Unknown No data. Collected by Robert Ellis 28/9/1992
Lamont Reef, Queensland, Australia Size: 28.77mm Collected: 1996 Collected from Under coral slabs on intertidal coral reef by hand [low tide]. Collected by Callum Woodward August 1996
Lady Musgrave Island, Queensland, Australia Size: 29.18mm Collected: Unknown Collected on intertidal coral reef by hand [low tide]. Collected by Robert Ellis 23/8/2003
Sykes Reef, Queensland, Australia Size: 21.72mm Collected: Unknown Collected on intertidal coral reef by hand [low tide]. Collected by Robert Ellis 18/9/1993
Tryon Island, Queensland, Australia Size: 28.16mm Collected: Unknown Collected on intertidal coral reef by hand [low tide]. Collected by Robert Ellis 9/8/1990
Mast Head Island, Queensland, Australia Size: 29.94mm Collected: 2010 Collected from Under coral slabs on intertidal coral reef by hand [low tide]. Collected by Callum Woodward August 2010
Hoskyn Island Reef, Queensland, Australia Size: 25.94mm Collected: Unknown Collected on intertidal coral reef by hand [low tide]. Collected by Robert Ellis 26/8/1996
Murray Island, Australia Size: 29mm Collected: Unknown No data.
Wooli, Australia Size: mm Collected: 1989 found on rocky reef at low tide
Lord Howe Island, Australia Size: 22.15mm Collected: Unknown No data
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Grand Central Station, Solomon Islands Size: mm Collected: 1998 found dead in sand on coral reef see dive log #28
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Charapoana Island, Solomon Islands Size: mm Collected: 2000 found dead in sand on coral reef
Nauru, Nauru Size: 25.16mm Collected: Unknown No data
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Uepi POint, Solomon Islands Size: mm Collected: 2002 found dead in sand on coral reef
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Papeete, French Polynesia Size: 12.92mm Collected: 1999 In sand at 1-2m [4-6 ft].
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Huahine, French Polynesia Size: 29.92mm Collected: Unknown No data
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Tuamotus Islands, French Polynesia Size: 15.9mm Collected: 2007 Collected from reef by diver.
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu Size: 26.88mm Collected: Unknown No data
Muri Lagoon, New Zealand Size: 20.34mm Collected: Unknown Collected from under coral on sand at 1-2m.
Madang, Papua New Guinea Size: mm Collected: 1973 No data.
Taurama Beach, Papua New Guinea Size: mm Collected: 1984 under a coral rock on reef
Rabaul- Old, Papua New Guinea Size: 28.51mm Collected: Unknown No data
Coral Coast, Fiji Size: mm Collected: 1989 No data.
Boang Island, Papua New Guinea Size: 19.33mm Collected: 1975 Collected by scuba diver.
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Man Friday Resort, Fiji Size: mm Collected: 1997 found dead in sand in 1 meter of water also observed some specimens on coral reef in 3m of water in same location.
Phuket, Thailand Size: 25.35mm Collected: Unknown No data.
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Pura Tanah Lot , Indonesia Size: 22.37mm Collected: 1995 Dead in rubble at 5m.
Bohol, Philippines Size: 21.11mm Collected: 2007 Collected by local fishermen.
Sulu Archipelago, Philippines Size: 19.86mm Collected: Unknown No data
Taiwan, Taiwan Size: 31.08mm Collected: 1971 No data
Palau Tiomen, Malaysia Size: 22.53mm Collected: Unknown Collected from under rubble at 1m.
guam, Guam Size: 14.33mm Collected: Unknown Dead in rubble and weed at low tide.
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Saipan Island, Northern Mariana Islands Size: 15.02mm Collected: Unknown Collected form rubble at 2m by diver.
forma: tuberculata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) This form has extreme marginal turbercules and elevated teeth. Susupe, Northern Mariana Islands Size: 18.96mm Collected: 1995 No data
Subspecies: Monetaria moneta icterina (Lamarck, 1810) Dakar, Senegal Size: 33.28mm Collected: Unknown Collected from reef at 2m by diver.
forma: venefica This variation has a whitish dorsum with yellow to pale orange base. Seychelles, Seychelles Size: 20.91mm Collected: Unknown No data
St Francois, Mauritius Size: 12.52mm Collected: 1992 Collected from reef at low tide.
