Described as Nassaria mordica (synonymous):
Shell of medium size, very solid, biconical, false umbilicate. Colour buff, the cords on the rib-summits of the periphery picked out with chocolate, aperture flesh-tint. Whorls seven, and a protoconch of three smooth whorls. Sculpture : seven prominent oblique rounded ribs cross each whorl, and mount the spire continuously, the last forming a varix to the aperture. These are crossed by spiral cords, about fifteen to the last and five to the penultimate whorl, two or three of the peripheral cords predominating over the rest Across these run close fine radial laminae, puckered into imbricating scales on crossing the spirals. Canal open, short, recurved, the canal-tips of previous apertures enclosing with a frill a false umbilicus. Aperture narrow-oval; on the right side are seven evenly spaced entering ridges which penetrate a short distance only; externally they end abruptly at a circumferential groove. Posteriorly the aperture ends in a furrow followed by a tubercle. The upper part of the inner lip is clear of obstructions, but the lower is occupied by five strong and deeply penetrating spiral ridges which do not reach the free edge of the columellar lip. Length 16; breadth 8 mm.

Indo-West Pacific. Currently known from scattered localities, in Mozambique, Borneo, west Sumatra, Queensland, New Caledonia, live in 10-60 m, and Fiji (new record), shells only in 21-38 m.