Shell small to medium-sized, more or less claviform; the spire takes usually half of the total shell length; whorls weakly to strongly convex, with a variable sculpture; suture thin and shallow; aperture long, narrow; anal notch usually stromboid, more or less carved in the subsutural ramp; anterior siphonal canal short, open; operculum with a terminal nucleus.
 

The genus is monotypic, characterized by a labial thickening like in Cerodrillia Bartsch & Rehder, by the weakly convex whorls radially sculptured with numerous sinuous folds. Protoconch pointed.
 

« Shell turriculated, rather thin; apex obtuse; whorls carinated; sinus profound, distant from the suture. » – H. Suter: “Revision of the New Zealand Pleurotomidae, with Descriptions of Six New Species”, Transactions of the New Zealand Institute vol.31, Zoology, p.66.