Members of this group have shells with four varices and tubes per whorl, the tubes situated slightly closer to the older of two consecutive varices. Each tube is bent posteriorly and dorsally. The varix at the growing edge is constricted above the aperture and flaring at its anterior end. Faint spiral sculpture is not uncommon.

Type species by original designation: Typhis sowerbyi Broderip, 1833=Murex labiatus Cristofori & Jan, 1832, Mediterranean, East Atlantic.
Short description: Presence of a laminar extension; teleoconch whorls with four flange-like, frilled axial varices. Varices constricted above the aperture and flaring at its abapical end; varical flange of last teleoconch whorl extending to almost the tip of siphonal canal; anal tubes situated near preceding varix, adpressed to preceding laminar extension. Average length of the type species: 17mm.