The solid, umbilicate shell has a conical shape.

Its color is a dull, lusterless yellowish white or pinkish, with flexuous radiating cinereous or violaceous stripes below the suture.

tTe entire surface is finely mottled and dotted with yellowish or violaceous and white.

The about six whorls are flattened and separated by slightly impressed sutures.

[3] This species is host to the ectoparasites Trochicola entericus Dollfus, 1914 and Lichomolgus trochi Canu, 1899[2] This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off Portugal.