Iceland; Norway to Gibraltar; Seine and Getty seamounts to Mediterranean, Aegean. Predator on sessile preys from the circalittoral down to the continental shelf and slope (500m deep in Jeffreys). – 400m deep, on white coral bottom, Civitavecchia, Lazio, W. Italy. 3,5mm.

Shell small, conical, of variable height, with an ellipsoidal base; slopes flat, slightly concave near the apical area along the main axis of the ellipse; foramen apical, oval-circular; septum small, straight, « covering about half only of the foramen » (Pilsbry); sculpture made up of numerous rounded pustules arranged along thin and weak close-set radial cords that crenate the margins; periostracum thin, of a light fawn.