« Shell fusiform, a little short; spire little high; 9 angular whorls; suture linear; last whorl a little concave in the upper, then rounded, then lengthened and well attenuated downwards; test thick; 9 coarse, rounded ribs forming a very prominent nipple at the periphery; aperture subpiriform; channel a little short, wide; colour greyish white, ribs and peristome lighter, with darker decurrent bands. » – A. Locard: “Les coquilles marines des côtes de France”, Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon n. ser. vol. 37, Lyon 1891, p.113.

« Shell fusiform, with a small umbilical groove and a short channel anteriorly, somewhat solid, sometimes thick and quite heavy, opaque, without brightness; surface almost smooth with longitudinal knots and ribs; the colouration is of a slightly whitish, bluish white under a reddish or olive epidermis; suture simple, almost always wavy but with a lot of irregularity; the spire is elevated, pointed at the apex; it is composed of 8 to 9 whorls, angular in the middle, with a concave slope abapically, and provided in the shoulder with very protruding and obtuse, white nodes, which are continued anteriorly in thick, inflated ribs; the last whorl is barely longer than the rest of the spire, ventricose, angled towards its back and terminated abruptly ahead in a straight, short and quite wide channel; it has 7 to 9 longitudinal ribs with the same characters as those of the rest of the spire, but that disappear near the canal; the aperture is oval, inside white-blue or chestnut-coloured, smooth or with transverse grooves, anteriorly provided with a short open channel; the right edge is thin, sharp, slightly angled on the back, then arched, smooth and white on the inside; the columella is equally smooth and whitish, except in the medium which is a little dark, almost always presenting in its posterior part, near the insertion of the right edge, a small transverse fold; anteriorly two or three oblique plies are noticed, but little marked. The operculum is unguiform, horny, dark, almost smooth externally and with a terminal nucleus. » – op. cit. p.3 of “Fasciolaria”.