It is shining, fawn-colored or light yellowish-olive, with numerous narrow oblique flexuous reddish longitudinal lines.

The upper whorls of the spire are more or less marked with white and pink or olive spots arranged spirally.

The about 7 whorls are planulate, densely spirally striate, the striae stronger on the base.

The pearly columella is vertical, ending in an acute, compressed denticle.

The parietal wall has a thin deposit of brilliantly iridescent Prussian blue nacre.