Shell with the apex eroded and about five rounded whorls remaining; white, covered with an olivaceous yellow periostracum; suture appressed; axial sculpture of numerous, rather irregular, prominent incremental lines; spiral sculpture of, between the sutures, about seven cordlike ridges, which on the last whorl become flatter and strap-like; the interspaces are irregular, but usually wider; between the cord at the shoulder and the suture behind there is a flattish space with four or five obsolete finer spirals; contrary to custom, the base of the last whorl and canal have no spiral sculpture; aperture short-oval, the outer lip thin, short, the body erased white, the pillar gyrate and minutely pervious; canal very short, wide, and slightly recurved; operculum with a small subspiral nucleus. Length of shell, 31; of last whorl, 20; maximum diameter, 14 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum. Type locality, Bering Sea, off the Pribilof Islands, in 1,771 fathoms.
RANGE. Off the Pribilof Islands, 1,771 fathoms.