The shell is moderately large to very large (maximum length 160 mm) and robustly fusiform. The spire is moderately low and acute, consisting of seven or eight strongly shouldered postnuclear whorls and a protoconch of undetermined nature. The suture is essentially obscured by the succeeding whorl. The body whorl is large and fusoid. The aperture is of moderate size and ovate, with a narrow, moderately deep anal sulcus. The outer apertural lip is weakly erect, dentate, and smooth within, with a weak labial tooth toward its anterior end. The columellar lip is entirely adherent and smooth, except for a strong parietal ridge running into the aperture and delimiting the anal sulcus. The siphonal canal is moderate in length, broad, weakly bent to the right and dorsally, and narrowly open to the right.
The body whorl bears three or four heavy, rounded varices. Intervarical axial sculpture con-sists of a single heavy, pointedly knobby ridge, generally closer to the growing edge of the shell. Spiral sculpture consists of five or six major cords, these alternating with minor cords, and a multitude of finer cords and threads. Where the major cord at the shoulder margin intersects the varix, a short, stout, sharply pointed, and more or less recurved spine is developed. Toward the anterior end of the body a moderately broad spiral depression reflects the position of the tooth on the varical margin. Immediately below this, a series of three or four broadly, ventrally open, scalelike spines are developed, these sometimes coalesced, forming a webbing of sorts. The canal bears two short, ventrally open spines. Shell color ranges from white to light chocolate-brown, most commonly white with scattered brown flecks, the flecks sometimes arranged in diffuse spiral bands, these most prominent on the intervarical ridges and just before a varix. The aperture is white, generally rimmed with fleshy pink.

Northwestern Indian Ocean, from eastern Africa to the Bay of Bengal.