Size of the shell varies between 16 mm and 39 mm. Shell white to buff with raised spiral ribs, interspaces brownish, a small blue stain adjacent to the columnella. Height 15 to 35 mm. The thin, imperforate shell has a conical shape with a flat base It is fawn colored with yellowish white lirae. The surface of the
whorls is encircled by numerous sharply sculptured, smooth, narrow, cord-like lirae, subequal or alternately smaller. The base contains 11 to 13 similar ones. On the upper whorls the lirae are fewer, and in well preserved individuals the second whorl is minutely beaded above. The
spire is conic, with nearly straight outlines. The
sutures are impressed. The spire contains 7-8 whorls, with the last obtusely angular, flat beneath and impressed around the axis. The oblique
aperture is rhombic, iridescent and sulcated inside. The thin
peristome is acute. The
columella is straightened, not truncate below, dilated in a pearly iridescent pad above, bounded by an opaque white deposit. Its mucus contains the toxin
BrMT. ==Distribution==