A species of medium size. The animal has a dark grey, bluish body. The shell is obese, with 6,75 to 7,5 convex whorls and a marked suture. The body whorl is intermediate and the protoconch is smooth, with 1,5 to 1,75 whorls. The aperture is short and wide.
The shell surface is shiny, with a weak radial oblique striation. The first whorls are pale brown in colour, with a few, irregular whitish patches, whereas the last three to four whorls have a milky white surface, with irregular and radially obliquely arranged small brown patches.

A species endemic to La Gomera, where it occupies a small area of approximately 9 km2 in the North of the island, with typical lowland vegetation and subtropical scrub and also heath and pine forest (mainly vegetational zones 2 and 3), at an altitude of 200-750 m.