See text Hemilienardia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae, the turrids.
The multispiral protoconch consists of a cone of 3½ smooth rounded whorls.
It lacks the characteristic diagonally cancellated sculpture of the other genera in this family.
The succeeding adult whorls not only differ in sculpture, but are wound in so divergent a spiral and increase at so disproportionate rate as to project that protoconch in a mucronate point.
In the colour of the type the contrast is even more violent, as there the brilliant snow-white apex against the deep rose-red is visible to the naked eye.