The species is of medium size and the animal has a dark brown body. The shell is slender, with 6,5 to 7,75 slightly convex whorls and a marked suture. Intermediate body whorl and smooth protoconch with 1,5 to 1,75 whorls.
The shell surface is shiny with a weak radial oblique striation. The first whorls are pale brown with very few, irregular whitish patches. The last three to four whorls are greyish white with numerous irregular, radial oblique elongated brown patches.

A species endemic to La Gomera, where it exists in a small area of approximately 7 km2 at the North-east of the island, with typical lowland vegetation and subtropical scrub (vegetational zone 2), at an altitude of 50-600 m .