Achatinella decipiens is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Achatinellidae.

[3] The rough sinistral (eastern range) or smooth dextral (western range) shell is conically-elongate, solid, slightly rounded, and margined above.

The columella is short, obliquely twisted and has an expanded callus.

The suture is slightly impressed with numerous longitudinal, oblique striae.

Shell color is white with yellow transverse bands, or yellow with white transverse lines and longitudinal chestnut colored stripes.