(Original description) The shell has a short-fusiform or subovate shape, with a short, blunt spire, and with five or six convex, but slightly angled or carinated whorls, which have a slightly flattened subsutural band.

The sculpture shows numerous small, regular, raised, spiral ridges, separated by wider grooves.

These may produce a slightly cancellated structure, on all the whorls, and extend as curved riblets, across the subsutural band.

The outer lip is expanded below the suture, then regularly rounded and thin.

[2] This species is amphiboreal and occurs in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine; also reported from the Sea of Japan; found at depths between 100 m and 1320 m.