Range — Recent, Mediterranean and tropical West Africa. Tertiary, Europe, Paleocene to Pliocene.

Shell of moderate size, 40-50 mm., narrowly fusiform with tall turreted spire and long straight to slightly recurved unnotched anterior canal. Protoconch small, narrowly conic of three smooth whorls. Sinus peripheral, moderately deep and narrowly U-shaped. Operculum leaf-shaped with a terminal nucleus. Radula, according to Thiele's 1929 figure, a pair of sharp pointed but rather stout marginals, evidently of modified wishbone type, but it is not clear if the base is bifid. Adult sculpture of wavy thin axials crescentically thickened at the narrowly rounded but not keeled periphery. Colour of the type species light brownish with two broad spiral bands of reddish-brown, one occupying the shoulder slope, the other on the base.

The genus is the European-West African counterpart of the Indo-Pacific Lophiotoma.