This species has a tallspired pink shell, with spiral rows of brown markings above and below the suture. The shell is axially sculptured on the early teleoconch whorls, and has shallow spiral grooves over most of the shell. Adults are 13 to 16 mm long, with 9 to 11 teleoconch whorls. The aperture has labial denticles, but none on the columella or parietal wall. The parietal wall has a rounded posterior ridge. The protoconch is pink with chestnut markings, peglike, with rough axial threading, and has 2.5 to 2.75 whorls. The species is very similar to Lavesopus clausiliformis, which is smaller, has a smooth, paucispiral protoconch and typically 6 to 8 teleoconch whorls (K. Monsecour & D. Monsecour, unpubl.).