The 5-6 whorls are convex, irregularly spirally lirate and finely regularly lamellosely longitudinally striate;.

The body whorl is usually biangulate, with a coronal and one or two submedian lirae prominent and armed with more or less numerous vaulted scales or spines.

The operculum is flat inside, with five whorls and a subcentral nucleus.

Its outer surface is finely tuberculate, cinereous or pale olive.

[2] This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Madagascar and the Mascarene Basin; in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines; off Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland); in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.