The shell is medium size, claviform, slender, with rather high spire, thin but solid, covered with solid olivaceous periostracum, and consists of protoconch and 9 teleoconch whorls. The protoconch is small (0.95 mm in diameter) consisting of 1.5 smooth glossy whorls. Definitive whorls weakly convex, with a slight angulation at the shoulder. Subsutural slope concave except for weak subsutural fold. Sutures straight, moderately deep, become slightly channelled on the body whorl. The axial sculpture is represented by strong oblique rounded folds, gradually disappearing on subsutural slope and reaching the lower suture or, on the body whorl, the shell base. The folds tend to weaken on the last half of the body whorl. There are 14 folds on the body and penultimate whorls. Spiral cords override the axial folds, they are low, wide and rounded, the intervals are approximately equal to cords in width or somewhat wider. There are 16 cords on the body whorl and 7-8 on the penultimate. The shell base is weakly convex, and smoothly passes into the canal. The aperture is rather narrow, elongate-oval, and not differentiated from the canal. The latter is short and wide, somewhat expanded and shallowly notched at the end. The anal sinus is moderately deep, rounded, symmetrical, and occupies the entire subsutural slope. The inner lip is covered with thick white callus with a free edge in the lower part. Columella almost straight. H = 31.3, Hb = 16.5, Ha = 12.4, D = 8.3 mm.
The paratypes are smaller (H no more than 27.4 mm) and vary slightly in the prominence of the axial and spiral sculpture including the subsutural fold. In one paratype, there is a weak but distinct callus pad at the entrance to anal sinus. The operculum is oblanceolate, with terminal nucleus. Marginal teeth of the radula possess broad leaf-shaped accessory limb, which does not reach the distal end of the shaft. The mean tooth length is 0.14 mm (in paratype with H = 27.4 mm).

Maldives.