Shell small, robust, ovate, with bluntly rounded apex. The sculpture consists of heavy rounded axials crossed by narrow spiral cords. The outline of the spire-whorls is stepped at the subsutural sulcus, below which it is straight and vertical. Aperture narrow, about half height of shell. Protoconch large, broad, dome-shaped, flattened on top, of two whorls, first smooth, second with 14 strong, regularly spaced axial ribs. Post-nuclear whorls sculptured with 14 strong rounded axials, vertical to slightly recurrently oblique, extending from suture to suture, but rapidly fading out on base. All post-nuclear whorls crossed by crisp, narrow spiral cords, 10 on spire-whorls and 28 on body-whorl. There are four or five characteristic weak Daphnellid plications on the inner side of the pillar. [2]
The species has a protoconch with a flat first whorl, and the axial sculpture noted by Powell appears to disappear with age. [3] The holotype measured 7.25 mm (0.285 in) in height and 3.25 mm (0.128 in) in diameter, [2] but likely is of a specimen that had not fully grown. Other specimens have been identified with heights ranging between 6–14.5 mm (0.24–0.57 in), and diameters of between 3–5.5 mm (0.12–0.22 in). [3]
