« Last whorl ovate-cylindrical, 40% of total height in fully grown specimens; base quickly tapering, imperforated, with distinct neck. Aperture oval, ending in a very short abapical canal inclined to shell axis; outer lip thin, crenulated by spiral cords, produced abapically; columella straight, with thick, broad callus; abapical sinus deep and rather narrow. » – Cecalupo & Robba: “The identity of Murex tubercularis Montagu, 1803 and description of one new genus and two new species of the Cerithiopsidae, Bollettino Malacologico vol.46, Milano 2010, p.60. – In grit at 50m deep, Almería, Andalucia, S. Spain. 3mm.