Shell small, fusiform, cream to brownish in colour, with a smooth and mamillated protoconch. The whorls are convex, the suture shallow. Each whorl bears about 8-9 large and prominent axial costae; on the first whorl these costae are crossed by 3 spiral cords, on the second by 4, on the third by 5 and on the fourth by 6. The axial costae, about as wide as the interspaces, are of the same colour than the shell, but paler; the spiral cords are darker, except for the peripheral one, which becomes as pale as the costae when it crosses them. Outer lip strongly varicose in adult specimens, internally marked by weak elongated teeth. Columella smooth. Siphonal canal open, arcuate and slightly deviated to the left. – Above and below: subadult caught in nets at 80m deep, Saronic Gulf, E. Greece. 9,5mm.