Red Sea (at least) and far eastern Mediterranean. Micrograzer along the rocky shore. « This pretty species may be recognized from any other by the nine transverse red lines and the punctured striae, about twenty in the body-whorl. » – E. A. Smith: “Remarks on several species of Bullidae, with descriptions of some hitherto undescribed forms and of a new species of Planaxis”, Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser.4, vol.9, p.355. Another description is given in Tryon: « Whorls convex, with very minute punctured spiral striae, pale fulvous, ornamented with spiral rows of small square chestnut spots; margin of outer lip spotted. » – G. W. Tryon: Manual of conchology, structural and systematic ser.1 vol.9, Philadelphia 1887, p.279. – Original taxon: Planaxis punctostriatus.
 
Above: specimen collected in shallow water under rock, Dor, Haifa district, NW. Israel. 8,1mm. It doesn’t show punctured spiral striae, and the ornamentation is devoid of square spots.