Shell small, solid fusiform, of a livid flesh color with grayish-white outer coat and dehiscent olivaceous periostracum and about six whorls, the nucleus decorticated; suture distinct, rather deep; sculpture of uniform, fine, flattish threads, close-set, about two to a millimeter, covering the whole surface, with axial sculpture of fine, inconspicuous, incremental lines; whorls evenly rounded but not reflected; aperture elongate, the outer lip thickened and slightly reflected; the body and rather straight pillar thickly enameled; canal short and wide, slightly recurved, with a feeble fasciole; the operculum is brown, narrow, parallel-sided, with the nucleus at the right hand corner. Height of shell, 64; of last whorl, 52; diameter, 30 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 223055. Type locality, United States Fish Commission Station 3283 off Khudubine Islands, Bering Sea.
RANGE. Pribilof to Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea.