Shells small to medium-sized with a high spire, a narrow aperture, a thickened and expanded outer lip, and a moderately long anterior canal. Sculpture variable. Inside of the aperture smooth; unlike members of the family Strombidae, the columellar callus is reduced to the apertural area. Operculum horny. No umbilicus.
 

Sculpture made up of longitudinal folds crossed by spiral striae and cords of various strength; whorls carinate, bearing a row of large nodules; long labial digitations, variable in number, length and thickness, located in the extension of the carinas.