Vaughanites is a genus of m predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pyramimitridae .

The protoconch consists of between two and three whorls, about the last one sculptured with coarse axial riblets.

The siphonal canal is very long and narrow, unemarginate.

The anal notch, according to growth lines and ribs, is rather wide and shallow, the apex lying on a prominent spiral some distance from suture.

The sculpture consists of strong axial and spiral cords, forming an open lattice-work.