Volutomitra bairdii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Volutomitridae.

(Original description) The shell is waxen gray or greenish, elongated and acute.

The sculpture consists on the earlier whorls of up to fourteen little raised hardly fiexuous transverse waves extending clear across the whorls, rounded, equal throughout their length, and separated by shallow slightly wider interspaces.

This body whorl in the adult seems only marked by the fine and slightly irregular incremental lines which give to the thin smooth pale brown and slightly fibrous epidermis a silky appearance.

The outer lip is thin, sharp, with no lirae on the typical specimen.