Length, 11 mm; diameter, 3.5 mm. Shell: elongate, compressed, solid; without a basal disk; not umbilicate; axial sculpture of low ribs; white. Spire: protoconch paucispiral, of one and one-half white whorls; teleoconch of rather flattened whorls; suture shallow, crenulated. Sculpture: low, rounded axial ribs not continuous the length of the whorls and with faint spiral threads; a single varix across the fifth whorl. Aperture: subcircular; peristome complete and thickened, slightly reflected at the edge. Color: white.
Shells are fairly common in beach drift, but nothing is known of the habits of the living animals.
This species was described from the Hawaiian Islands, and has also been reported from Kii Peninsula, Japan, at depths of 5 to 20 m (Habe, 1964), and the Cocos-Keeling Islands (Maes, 1967).