« Shell patelliform, not nacreous, symmetrical, with an entire non-sinuated margin, and a posteriorly inclined apex with a deciduous spiral nucleus. Muscular impression horseshoe-shaped, interrupted over the head. » – W. H. Dall: “On certain limpets and chitons from the deep waters off the eastern coast of the United States”, Proceedings of the United States National Museum vol.4, Washington 1881, p.401.
Coccopigya Marshall, 1986:
« Protoconch reticulately sculptured. Teleoconch traversed by low radial riblets with shallowly punctate summits. Periostracum buff. » – B. A. Marshall: «Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales», New Zealand Journal of Zoology vol.12(4), 1985, p.510.
