The shell, of a yellow orange colour, bears slightly prosocline rounded radial folds. A distinctive feature is the more or less marked red brownish blotches at the periphery of each teleoconch whorl, located in the interspaces. In some variants, the spiral ribs also can be coloured in that same red brown.

Protoconch granulose, of about one whorl after the egg, characterized by a keel on the top, quickly vanishing, and two other ones at the periphery. The transition protoconch-teleoconch is marked by strong radial ribs, after what begins the usual scupture of the teleoconch, made up of 2 spiral cords in the continuation of the previous keels, and radial folds.