Pila speciosa

The shell can grow quite large, up to 105 x 100 mm.

The globose shell has an ovoid shape. It is dextral (right-coiling). It contains 4 convex whorls. The deep suture is distinctly channeled. The body whorl is inflated and slightly attenuated at the base. The apex is pointed. The surface is smooth, showing growth lines). It can be very finely spirally striated when viewed under a lens. The color is chestnut-brown. The interior can be medium brown. The aperture is oval to egg-shaped. It is large, occupying about 3/4 of the shell's length, and is slightly broader below and rounded at the base. The umbilicus is rather wide.

• Bacci, G. (1951). Elementi per una malacofauna dell'Abissinia e della Somalia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria, 65: 1-145. Genova.

• Philippi, R.A. (1849). "Centuria tertia testaceorum novorum". Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 5 (10).

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