Length and height 43 mm, breadth 12 mm. Shell thin, fragile, watch-glass-shaped. Left valve with some 20 low radial ribs and crowded, discontinuous wavy brownish lines sometimes with brownish radial stripes or blotches. Internally pale brownish centrally, with 32 regualrly spaced radial ribs. Right valve white, indistinct radial ribs stained in reddish brown. Interior white with similar radial sculpture to that of the left valve.
Distribution:
Southeast Florida to Caribbean Sea and off Suriname. Sublitloral to shelf.
Remarks:
Abbott (1974) placed this species under Aequipecten.