« Shell ovoid, fairly stocky when adult, with a vague truncated posterior rostration. Profile rather rounded to subcylindrical, with a slight rupture in the anterior quarter. Labrum bearing 12-15 weak denticles. Columellar folds barely duplicated. Surface of the shell, except the calluses of the labrum and the columella, bearing a microsculpture of very fine corrugations, parallel to the growth streaks. » – S. Gofas: “ Le genre Granulina (Marginellidae) en Méditerranée et dans l’Atlantique oriental”, Bollettino Malacologico vol.28 (1), Milano 1992, p.21.