Height 70 mm, breadth 120 mm. Shell low conic and thin, similar to the preceding species, but separable from it in having the following characters:(1) Shell thinner and lighter, (2) Coloration dull yellowish white, (3) Eaves broader with growth lines on the base risen as slender ribs reaching to the periphery, (4) Basal lip of the aperture arched not sigmoid, (5) Operculum broader. Radula taenioglossate; central quadrate with a single cusp with serrated denticles; lateral tall, ovoidal, with a cusp with obsolete denticles; marginals lack serrations.
Distribution:
North Carolina to Barbados and off Suriname. Slope.
Remarks:
The precending species O. caribaeus usually carries Malluvium but the present species does not, instead, it carries commensal tube worm in umbilicus and also Epizoanthus on the basal surface.