The fusiform shell is somewhat less ridged and striated and has a long siphonal canal.

The shell is covered with sharply carinated whorls, the carina (= a prominent knife-edge ridge) consisting of a pair of narrow ribs.

The whole surface is covered with close, raised revolving lines, of which two or three below the carina are more prominent.

The color of the shell is whitish with minutely numerously brown-spots and with usually a row of larger spots below the suture.

[3] This marine species occurs in the Mascarene Basin and off Madagascar; off Sri Lanka, the Philippines, in the South China Sea, off Australia and the Fiji Islands.