It is depressedly orbicular, thick, with a short but slightly exsert spire.

The whorls are convex, rounded, smooth, or obliquely thickly and most minutely striate.

The umbilicus is angularly excavate; with a kind of callosity within the suture at the aperture.

The shell is pale fulvous or whitish, banded with brownish or orange lines.

It is a carnivorous marine snail found on intertidal sand flats, all around Australia.