Shell small, very solid, luridly reddish-tawny, with margins of the spire curved outwardly; with nuclear vertex chalcedonic (eroded) ; with whorls normally 6 in number, regularly tabulate in the rear with impressed sutures; radial ribs about 16, strong, obtuse, obsolete around the attenuate base; with 3 to 4 spiral costae on the spire, narrow outstanding, nodose above the radial costae; with interstices deeply sculptured, subquadrate; with about 7 ribs around the base, standing out squarely, with interstices scarcely decussate by the lines of growth; with canal short, open; with rather sharp outer lip, scarcely sinuate to the posterior angle; inner lip thin; columella obsoletely uniplicate. (Carpenter)

Sitka, Alaska, to Monterey, California.