10mm. Thick, dull, globose-ovate or ovate-conical, slightly tabulated below the deep sutures; pointed protoconch of about 2 smooth whorls. Early spire whorls spirally ridged, ridges on later whorls becoming coarsely nodular, ridges alternately strong and weak. Whitish or yellowish orange; columella and aperture orange brown. Habitat: intertidal rocks