(Described as Murex crawfordi G. B. Sowerby III, 1892) The solid shell is subventricose and acuminate.

The shell consists of 5½ convex, rotund whorls with numerous raised lirae with small nodules cingulate in spirals.

The columella is smooth, slightly arcuate and abruptly truncated.

This species is closely allied to Vaughtia scrobiculata, but differs constantly in its shorter form, and the absence of a rostrum, the base of the columella being abruptly truncated.

This marine species occurs off Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.