(Original description) The delicate, turreted shell has a pale ochreous-brown color, or is (var.

The protoconch itself is globular, plain, the next is beautifully but microscopically cancellate, the remainder is longitudinally acutely costate, angled above.

The interstitial spaces are quadrate, smooth and acutely echinate at the points of junction.

The number of the ribs on the body whorl is eleven to twelve.

[2] This marine species occurs off Mauritius, Taiwan and the Philippines.