« Shell small, solid, pupiform, consisting of 3 larval and 3.5 postlarval whorls. Protoconch with convex whorls, opisthocyrt incremental lines and one subsutural spiral thread. Teleoconch with convex whorls and impressed suture; the sculpture consists of thick axial lamellae and raised spiral cords. There are 22 lamellae on the body whorl. No basal cord, no basal disc. Aperture ovate, with peristome continuous over the parietal area, thickened outer lip. No umbilicus. Colour of the shell creamy white, protoconch light brown. » – Bouchet & Warén: “Revision of the northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Aclididae, Eulimidae, Epitoniidae”, Bollettino malacologico vol. XXII suppl. 2, Milano 1986, p.519.