Shell medium sized, attaining 24 mm, ovate to widely ovate, with low to medium high spire, high last whorl and short, medium to wide siphonal canal. Protoconch large, either paucispiral, bulbous, and smooth or very finely striated, or multispiral, reticulated. Teleoconch whorls evenly convex or slightly angulated at shoulder, subsutural ramp variously pronounced, in most species very weak, nearly straight. Anal sinus subsutural, deep, with deepest point on subsutural ramp. Axial sculpture limited to growth lines, some raised, with appearance of very narrow axial ribs. Spiral sculpture of narrow, dense spiral cords. Aperture high, wide, ovate. Operculum absent.
Radula of short conic hypodermic marginal teeth with very wide basal opening and lacking barb at tip.