Shell solid, white, covered with a pale-olive, slightly-hispid periostracum, with a rather elevated, subacute spire of seven whorls; suture distinct, not channeled; apex somewhat eroded with a small blunt top; surface of the whorls delicately sculptured with fine revolving threads, four or five to a millimeter, of which about every fourth thread is perceptibly stronger than the other three; these are crossed by still finer, sharp, elevated, arcuate, incremental lines, along which the hispidity of the periostracum is arranged; pillar white, solid, twisted, funicular distally; canal very short, wide; outer lip thin, simple, with a concave-flexuosity behind the periphery; body with a thin white callus. Alt, 42; max. diam., 22; long, aperture, 17 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum. Type locality, 121 fathoms near the Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea.
RANGE. Bering Sea, Pribilof Islands to Alaska in 14—121 fathoms.