Collected for food and for its highly polished, colorful shell. The operculum is well known in shell jewelry under the name “cat’s eye” (Ref. 349). Inhabits sublittoral and in relatively protected habitats. Found in intertidal to 30 m, on coral. Embryos develop into planktonic trocophore larvae and later into juvenile veligers before becoming fully grown adults. This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar, Mozambique, Chagos and Mauritius; also in the West Pacific and from Western Australia to southern Queensland.
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