This species was described under the name Helix pyrrhozona by German–Chilean paleontologist and zoologist Rodolfo Amando Philippi in 1845.

[4] The following whorls are slightly convex, slowly increasing, separated by an impressed suture.

[4] The radula and jaw was depicted by George Washington Tryon and Henry Augustus Pilsbry in 1894.

[6] The penis is slender, ending in a long retractor and the terminal vas deferens.

[6] There is a dense cluster of about ten club-shaped, glandular mucous glands near the atrium base.