« Shell small, oval-conical, solid, not umbilicate. Protoconch of 1-1,2 whorls, with a clearly twisted nucleus carved with six spiral striae. […] Teleoconch of circa 3,5 convex whorls with a deep suture. Spiral sculpture made up of 8-9 spiral cords with 4 above the aperture; 3 cords always appear on the penultimate whorl; about 15-19 axial ribs on the last whorl, form at the intersection with the spirals cords some conspicuous mamillated tubercles. Aperture ovate, anteriorly round, posteriorly acute; external lip enlarged by a varice, and crenulated by the spiral ribs; inner lip attached to the columellar shield in the rear half, free in the front. Colour white with two red-brown bands: the subsutural one visible around all the teleoconch, the lower one appearing only on the last whorl. » – Oliveiro & Amati: “Una nuova specie del gruppo di Alvania subcrenulata”, Bollettino malacologico vol. XXVI, Milano 1990.

The species is dedicated « to our friend Ignacio Nestares Pleguezuelo of Granada (Spain), who sent to one of us a copious amount of material from Almuñecar, including hundreds of specimens of the new species. »