(Original description) The solid shell is angularly pyriform and yellowish white.

It contains 8 whorls, flattened, and slightly excavated above, strongly and prominently keeled at the periphery, and sloping inwards below.

Above the keels they are finely arcuately striate, below irregularly more or less crenately concentrically ridged.

The outer lip shows a broad excavated sinus extending from its juncture with the body whorl to the extremity of the last keel.

[2] This deepwater marine species occurs in the Indo-West Pacific, also off Japan, Philippines, and Western Australia; and as fossils, range: Upper Miocene to Recent (mainly Pliocene).