Shell solid, fusiform, slender. Protoconch paucispiral. Whorls 5, moderately convex; suture deep, canaliculate; presence of a marked subsutural ramp. Sculpture made of longitudinal ribs, a little opisthocline, crossed by sharp spiral cords, slightly thinner than the ribs; tubercles point at each intersection; those from the two first subsutural rows are somewhat spiny. Aperture narrow; posterior siphonal notch shallow; the anterior siphonal canal is rather long for the genus; labial margin denticulate inside. Colour: chestnut (common) to honey (rare) background with whitish irregularly placed blotches; sometimes a more or less conspicuous white line of tubercles runs around the body whorl.

« Dedicated to our young friend Philbert, naturalist at Montpellier, who, the first, made us separate this species from the others. » (A. Michaud: “Description de plusieurs espèces nouvelles de coquilles vivantes”, Bulletin d’Histoire Naturelle de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux vol. III, Bordeaux 1829, p.262). – 65m deep, Saronic Gulf, E. Greece. 7,3mm.