Description: Shell small (<2.7 mm), formed by 4 ¼ whorls separated by a slightly marked suture; the shell is wider than high, with a low spire and narrowly umbilicate.
The protoconch has a little more than 2 whorls, measures about 410 jum in diameter, is completely smooth on its initial part and has fine tubercles on the remaining whorl, without any terminal thickening. The teleoconch has 2 whorls and 2 carinae, one peripheral, the other basal. The ornamentation is composed of spiral cords, axial folds and rounded cells in the spaces between the cords. On the adapical part, the first spire whorl bears 4-5 spiral cords which develop in zigzag crossing the axial striae. Nodulose cordlets appear after the first whorl, 26 on the last Vi whorl; in the area near the peripheral carina, sinuous axial ribs predominate over the cords.
The space between carinae has 15 spiral cordlets as seen in apertural position. On the last half whorl, 20-22 thick folds appear on the lower peripheral carina being more prominent those near the end of the whorl. Base with short axial folds, and thin growth lines.
Aperture quadrangular; parietal area covered by a broad callous layer; columella arched, thick and reflected towards the umbilicus; the outer lip has a smooth margin and two angles, the most prominent is situated at the level of the basal carina and prolongs the lip laterally. Umbilicus funnel-shaped, narrow and deep, not bounded by a spiral cord, inside there are 2-3 spiral cordlets.
Dimensions: the holotype is 2.76 mm in diameter; the larger photographed paratype is 2.6 mm.

The differences with the most similar species are: Anticlimax bicornis spec. nov. has a wider umbilicus and its periphery lacks prominences; A. serrata spec. nov. has prominences all over the periphery of the last whorl and its umbilicus is more sculptured; A. reinaudi spec. nov. has a flat periphery, an angled funnel shaped umbilicus and a more sculptured protoconch.

Only known from Panglao and Bohol islands, Philippines, between 2 and 152 m.