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- Shell: No dark blotch on the columella, the teeth are often longer
in the middle of the columella. Covered with cream-brown hieroglyhic or veriform
lines against a cream background, assuming the form of lines and sprinkled
dots. The dorsal line shows clearly, the side margins have bluish - brown
blotches, and the base is creamy fawn with brown teeth lines.
- Animal: Dark grey black, siphon- black and fringed (fingerlike).
- Region: Indo-Pacific, from east Africa to Tahiti & from Japan to north Australia.
- Habitat: Nocturnal, prefers shallow, well-aerated water under coral slabs or stone on hard coral.
- Notes: There are several shells in the arabica comlex. Supposedly introduced to Hawaii with WWII.
- Subspecies:
arabica histrio
maculifera
