Brittle shell up to 2.5cm in length. The shell is white but obscured with a cream periostracum. The inside is also white. The surface is sculptured with faint concentric rings.

Brittle shell up to 2cm in length. The shell is white in colour but obscured by a brown periostracum. The inside is white, sometimes with a blue tinge. The surface of the shell is sculptured with faint concentric lines.

Brittle shell up to 1cm in length. The shell is white in colour but can appear translucent. The surface is obscured by a brown periostracum. The surface of the shell is sculptured with radiating ribs and concentric lines

Solid shell up to 17cm from beak to opposite margin. It is dirty white to brown in colour, occasionally with purple markings. The surface of the shell is sculptured with concentric ridges and lines.

Up to 35mm long, 40mm high, 35mm across, plump, roundish. Juveniles longer than high. 32-38 ridged close-set radial ribs, sometimes obscure towards the posterior, crossed by concentric striations and growth lines. Periostracum grey and thick. Teeth small, sharp. Margin crenulated, with fluting on the inside extending about 1/5 of the way into the shell. Greyish yellow with narrow concentric bands of darker colour. Inside off-white.

Brittle shell up to 2.5 cm in length. It is white, yellow, brown, pink or orange in colour. The surface is sculptured with broad ribs interspersed with finer ones all of which are covered with tubercles. Concentric lines are also present.

Conical shell up to 35mm in height with 7 to 9 whorls. Colour is pale yellow marked with red brown spots or streaks. The shell is sculptured with spiral ridges raised into promient granular points. These major ridges are interspersed with smaller ones which are smooth. The animal has three pairs of epipodial tentacles.

Conical shell up to 12mm in height with about seven whorls. The shell is thin and semi-transparent and golden to reddish lustre. Shell surface is sculptured with 4 or 5 spiral ridges some of which have knot-like swellings. The animal possesses three pairs of epipodal tentacles.

Teardrop shaped shell, 7-8 tumid whorls, up to 45mm high, apex sharp. Shell very thin, appears smooth, but finely reticulate. Pale brown, may have reddish streaks or spots. Mouth oval, outer lip thin, siphonal canal short, inner lip callus thin and shiny.

Tall, loosely coiled, turreted shell, up to 130mm high. Apex blunt, next few whorls tend to be columnar, last adult whorls rounded, 7-8 in all. Shell lightweight. Sculpture of numerous shallow cords with growth lines. Shell whitish, with a yellowish green periostracum which may be rubbed off. Mouth D shaped, the siphonal canal barely present. The adult outer lip may be slightly flared, the inner lip is covered by a thin callus. Narrow and broad forms exist.