The shell is moderately small (maximum length 50 mm) and stoutly fusiform. Its spire is moderately high, with one and one-half nuclear whorls and seven or eight moderately shouldered postnuclear whorls. The suture is shallow and weakly defined. The body whorl is large and moderately broad. The aperture is moderate in size and subovate, with a weak anal sulcus and a strongly constricted anterior end. The outer apertural lip is erect, with a crenulate margin and eight strong denticles within. The columellar Up is adherent posteriorly, becoming progressively more erect anteriorly and bearing five to nine strong denticles distributed along its entire length. The siphonal canal is moderately short, narrowly open, and generally straight; vestiges of former canals ornament the region to the left of the canal.
The body whorl bears three broad, winglike varices, each well-developed across the shoulder, their margins indented to form two or three lobes. The varices on the spire are reduced in size and are entire rather than lobate. Intervarical axial sculpture consists of one or two more or less developed costae. Spiral sculpture consists of numerous cords, the strongest medial on the body whorl. In unworn specimens the entire surface of the shell is finely, densely lamellose, most strongly so on the ventral surface of the last varix.Shell color is white or cream. The aperture is pale to deep yellow-orange.

Intertidal to subtidal, throughout the Indo-West Pacific.