« Testa parva, turrita, granosa, albida, fusco punctata; granis per series tres transversas dispositis, saepe alternatim fuscis, in anfra. ultimo septemserialibus; interstitiis transversim sulcatis; costis nonnullis irregularibus variciformibus hinc inde; apertura ovata; labio superius callo transverso munito; canali brevi. » – R. A. Philippi: “Testaceorum novorum centuria”, Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie vol. V, Hannover 1848, page23.

« Shell small, conical, slightly short; spire rather elevated, acuminate, with a rectilinear outline; whorls 10, barely convex; last whorl taking a little less than the third of the total height; test quite thin, adorned by narrow decurrent regular cords, two in the upper whorls and four to five in the last one, bearing small rounded nipples, regular, prominent, spaced, reduced only at the base of the last whorl; colour: light fawn or greysish, the nipples clearly visible in white or in black. » – A. Locard: Les cerithium et les cerithidae des mers d’Europe, Lyon 1902, via BHL.