It contains six convex whorls, the upper ones obscurely longitudinally plicated.

The aperture is oval, with a thin expanded outer lip.

The simple columella is arcuate, slightly truncated anteriorly.

The outer lip has a sharp margin and is internally simple.

[2] This species is found in circumarctic waters (Greenland, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Russia; Bering Strait, Alaska), in the northwest Atlantic Ocean and in the Gulf of Maine.