Differs from suteri in being more narrowly ovate-fusiform, with proportionately longer spire, and higher, more loosely coiled whorls. Style of protoconch, aperture and sculpture almost identical, but the colour is uniformly dull-white, except the protoconch, which is buff to pale grey . Although the spiral element in the sculpture is similar, 6-7 cords on spire whorls, and 16-20 on the body-whorl, the axials are more distant and stronger, causing weak reticulation. Sinus broad and shallow, occupying the broad, ill defined shoulder, and more definite than in suteri.
Height, 4.6 mm.; diameter, 1.7 mm. (Holotype). Holotype in Auckland Museum (Dr. C. R. Laws collection). Locality: 72 fathoms off Cape Saunders, Otago.