« Teleoconch turriculate; spire rather elevated, moderately cyrtoconoid […] whorls up to 11, nearly flat-sided, as tall as about one half their diameter; sutures deeply impressed […] Last whorl 30-34% of total height in fully grown specimens, cup-shaped, with maximum diameter at its adapical end, gradually tapering downward; base short, convex, imperforated, with distinct neck. Aperture oval, rather small, ending in a short abapical canal inclined to shell axis; outer lip thin, crenulated by spiral cords; columella slightly concave, with thick callus; abapical sinus rather narrow and deep. Sculpture of rather thin collabral ribs and overriding, robust spiral cords forming bead-like nodes at intersections. The ribs, 12-14 on first whorl, 18-23 on last whorl, are straight, very slightly prosocline, thinner and more close together toward aperture, vanishing just adapical to lower suture. Three spirals start immediately, adapical thinner than other two and approximated to median one on spire whorls, of same strength and subequally spaced on last whorl; a fourth cord weakly beaded or smooth occurs on last whorl at level of suture; fully grown shells have another (fifth) spiral on upper base, bisected by a faint longitudinal groove in some specimens, bounded by 2 shallow spiral depressions separating it respectively from fourth cord and from adapical end of neck. Color bright reddish-brown, paler on adapical spiral of fresh shells. » – Cecalupo & Robba: “The identity of Murex tubercularis Montagu, 1803 and description of one new genus and two new species of the Cerithiopsidae, Bollettino Malacologico vol.46, Milano 2010, p.55-57.

« Larval shell conical, blunt-tipped, of 4.75-5.00 gently convex whorls, with very weak mid-abapical angulation on last quarter of whorl in some specimens; protoconch I with uneven, subsutural granular microprotuberances; protoconch II with short, slightly prosocline subsutural axial riblets and 1 suprasutural cord-like spiral followed downward by 2 threads, which emerge from adapical suture of first adult whorl (in some specimens) being soon overlapped by climbing up of the latter; diameter averaging 0.29 mm. Transition to teleoconch abrupt, marked by sinusigera lip and by sudden appearance of adult sculpture. » – Ibid.

Three spiral cords per whorl of teleoconch; as writen in the original description, the abapical cord, rather weakly sculptured, gets the same strength than its neighbours only around the penultimate-ultimate whorl.

The transition protoconch - teleoconch is typical of the genus: « abrupt, marked by opisthocline sinusigera lip and by the sudden appearance of adult sculpture. »