[1] (Original description by Schepman) The shell grows to a height of 5 mm.

The shell (not adult) consists of about 5 slightly convex whorls, with a conspicuous suture.

The sculpture consists of 2 spiral rows of short, thick tubercles, 15 or 16 in number on the body whorl, resembling small spines.

One row borders a depression at the upper part of the whorls, the other near the base The tubercles are connected by traces of spiral lirae.

The base of the shell is convex, with four beaded, spiral lirae, and two intermediate ones near the aperture; that bordering the umbilicus is the strongest.