Shells small to large, solid, with a pointed spire and a large aperture, often flaring in adult specimens; the anterior siphonal canal is doubled by the stromboid notch, through which the animal extends one of this two eyes. Parietal callus often well developed and glazed. Operculum falcate, sometimes serrated.
 

« Labrum not expanded; posterior canal short; shell conical; spire short. » – P. Fischer: Manuel de Conchyliologie et de Paléontologie Conchyliologique fasc.7, Paris 1884, p.670. The general shape and the lack of marked nodules or spines make this genus resemble members of Conidae.