Shell fusiform (b/1 0.29-0.38), with short, straight siphonal canal (a/1 0.39-0.46), last whorl with rounded periphery, spire straight-sided to slightly cyrtoconoid, whorls convex, without peripheral angle, suture somewhat deep but narrow; outer lip evenly convex, with 6-9 strong spiral threads inside, anal sinus relatively shallow, slightly V-shaped. Sculptured by well-defined, but rather low and narrow spiral cords, their intervals with thin intermediary threads roughened by crinkled collabral threads. Subsutural cord relatively low, bearing an angular thread, with a weaker one on either side; sulcus very narrow and deep. Sinus cord above median, nearly as prominent as peripheral cord, declivously flattened, bearing 2 spiral threads, strongly crenulate but not gemmulate. Base of penultimate whorl with 2-3 anterior cords, the peripheral cord not particularly prominent, the 3rd cord sometimes weak. Base of last whorl with very approximately 15-25, some weaker and paler, with finer threads in intervals, fine to obsolete on tip of rostrum. Collabral threads distinct, rendering basal cords somewhat granular. White to pale brown with main spiral ridges orange-brown; protoconch white. Protoconch (f. Vera-Pelaez et al. 2000) papilliform, 3.5 convex whorls, with arcuate, opisthocline axial riblets, suture covered by a thin, white ridge. Attains 90.5 mm in length.

Turris munizi: Shell large, turriculate-elongated, with 16 moderately convex spire whorls strongly carinated with three big carinas. Siphonal canal very short and straight. Anal sinus, moderately deep, V- shaped.
Protoconch conical multispiral, sinosigerous, white, small, with 3,5 convex spire whorls. Nucleus broken. The sculpture of the protoconch consists of ophistocline axial threads. Embrionary suture canaliculate, covered with a white thin spiral rib.
Teleoconch turriculated, strongly carinated with 3 big spaced carinas. Spire whorls moderately convex. First spire whorls of the teleoconch present 3 acute carinas, the middle carina is gemmulated. Adult spire whorls are moderately convex with 3 acute carinas and numerous white thin spiral ribs between carinas. The colour of the 3 carinas is deep brown. The middle carina is blunt, thin, sinuous, with 2 spiral ribs and a white groove between the spiral ribs. There is a sinuous deep groove adapically. Growth lines opisthocirte. Suture sinuous, deep.
The body whorl is convex, with 15 brown blunt spiral ribs, with white very thin spiral ribs alternating and 3 acute carinas adapically. Anal sinus moderately deep, V-shaped, on a double and sinuous spiral rib in the middle of the whorl. Outer lip thin, convex, sinuous, with 6 inner spiral folds. Columellar lip smooth, straight, covered with a white callus. Siphonal canal straight, short, white. Aperture ovate. The colour pattern consists of a light-reddish brown on 3 carinas (and spiral ribs on the body whorl) on a white background. Columellar, parietal and outer lip white.

Superficially, this species appears to be intermediate in characters between Gemmula and Turris, but has a sinus cord that is low and non-peripheral, and distinctly crenulate, not truly gemmulate as in the former. G lululimi appears to be characterised by the brown ridges on a white ground, its short siphonal canal and the strongly crenulated sinus cord.

Turris munizi: Turris munizi n. sp is very different from other species of the genus Turris and the subgenus Annulaturris. This species presents 3 light-reddish brown carinas on each whorl, a double and sinuous reddish-brown light spiral rib in the middle of the whorl and a deep and sinuous groove adapically. This species differs from other species of Turris in these characteristics.
Annulaturris brevicanalis Kuroda & Oyama, 1971 is a similar species. This species differs in the colour pattern, which consists of light-brown specks on carinas and spiral ribs and a yellowish-light brown background. There are 5-6 carinas on a whorl in A. brevicanalis and 3 acute carinas in A. munizi. The protoconch is very different in both species, white in A. munizi n. sp and brown in A. brevicanalis with numerous opisthocline threads and more spire whorls. This species have been compared with numerous material of A. brevicanalis from Wakayama (Japan) and Taiwan.
Annulaturris annulata (Reeve, 1843) is a very different species which differs in the colour pattern, brown, never white, a deeper anal sinus and a longer siphonal canal than A. munizi. The sculpture of the teleoconch consists of 3 thick spiral carinas on each whorl.

SW Japan to Southern Philippines and Papua New Guinea, depth reportedly 30 m to ca 360 m.

Turris munizi: The species has only been found, so far, in material from the Philippines.
Balut Island (Mindanao Sea, the Philippines).