This 43 mm chiton has a moderately wide girdle, brownish in color, or with alternating olivaceous and light brown bands. The girdle is covered with randomly dispersed, pointed spicules, and numerous yellowish, hollow bristles of different forms, mostly in pairs. Color of valves generally wine-red to reddish brown, often with longitudinal streaks of darker and lighter tones. Some specimens are white to greenish white, marked with brown. Central areas have numerous, closely beaded, fine longitudinal threads. Radial pustules found in the lateral areas. Growth lines weakly indicated.
Illustrated specimen from Burghardt Collection