Height 35 mm, Width 19.8 mm.

Liomesus ooides: Testa alba, crassa, ovato-conica; spira abbreviata; anfractibus convexiusculis, non plicatis, ad suturas abrupte-canaliculatis, striis longitudinalibus cinctis, quarum interstitia incrementi vestigilis tenerrimis decussantur canali brevi; labio magis minusve calloso; abro crasso; apertura mediocriter aperta. Long., 25. (Middendorff.)
Shell white, thick, ovately conical; spire abbreviated; with whorls slightly convex, not plicate, abruptly canaliculate to the suture, girdled with longitudinal striae of which the interstices are cut across by very slender vestiges of growth lines; with short canal; lip more or less callous; thick; aperture moderately open. (Translation.)
TYPE in Academy, St. Petersburg. Type locality, Okhotsk Sea ?
RANGE. Okhotsk Sea. Fossil: Pleistocene, of Yesso, Hokkaido, Japan.

Shell small, thick, solid, consists of 6.5 rounded very convex whorls, divided by a deep channeled suture. The body whorl occupies about 7/10 of the shell height. The profile of whorl is rounded. Spiral sculpture consists of thin ribs (15-17 on the body whorl) and small curved riblets, which are present between the ribs (6-8 on 5 mm of the shell surface). The ribs is more distinct on the shoulder and base of whorl. Aperture is wide, rounded-oval, occupies 5/10 of the shell height, creamy. Outer lip has thickness. Inner lip is covered with moderately thick white, creamy or yellowish-grayish mate callus. Siphon is very wide, short, curved to the left. Periostracum is thin, dense, form small axial lamellae with short bristles, yellowish-greenish or greenish-gray. Color of shell is white, gray or brownish and dark-brown.
[Egorov, 1994]

Widely spread species, from the northern part of the Japan Sea to the Gulf of Alaska and the Chuckchee Sea, at depth of 5-196 m. Uncommon.
[Egorov, 1994]