Shells minute to medium-sized, littoriniform to trochiform, thin, nacreous inside, operculate, and often adorned with marked sculptures of various styles. No labial varices, no labial thickenings. Aperture smooth inside.
 

Shell minute, littoriniform, weakly umbilicate to imperforate; whorls convex, separated from each other by a marked suture; presence of a subsutural shelf; sculpture made up of radial and spiral threads giving the shell a cancellate appearance; aperture suborbicular; the columella produces a thin callus, poorly developed outside the mouth, partially covering the umbilicus.