Shell small, with a pointed spire, brown-ish-white, shining; nuclear whorls lost, remaining whorls 8; axial sculpture of (on the penultimate whorl 14) broad ribs, curved over the narrow, rather indistinct anal fasciole, somewhat nodulous at the suture, extending over the base to the siphonal fasciole; spire with from 3 to 5 sharply incised spiral lines between the anal fasciole and the following suture which cut the axial ribs into spirally elongated segments, base with 10 similar incised spiral lines between the periphery and the siphonal fasciole, followed by 5 cords on the canal; aperture narrow, smooth within; outer lip thin, externally with fine axial striae for some distance back from the edge; the stromboid notch shallow, indistinct; anal sulcus deep, rounded, with a projecting subsutural callosity; inner lip callous, the edge slightly raised; canal short, somewhat recurved. The type measures: length, 14.5 mm.; maximum diameter, 5.0 mm.

The shell of this species is quite similar to that of Calliclava alcmene, but is smaller and with fewer and broader axial ribs.

Mexico. Off San Domingo Point, Santa Inez Bay, east coast of Lower California.