« Shell […] fairly solid, grayish semitransparent, ovate with a high aperture and well developed umbilicus. The larval shell […] consists of slightly more than one whorl. Its height is 340µm and it is sculptured by somewhat irregular rows of microtubercles visible as 6 fine lines under a good stereomicroscope. The holotype has 2¾ postlarval, convex whorls separated by a deep suture. The surface is covered by a strong sculpture of rough and sharp spiral ridges of varying size, about 5 at the beginning of the penultimate whorl, 25 at the beginning of the body whorl. The axial sculpture consists of close set and irregular incremental lines which give the whole surface a scaly appearance. The aperture is high and ovate, slightly pointed in its upper part and destitute of a thickened rib at the outer lip. » – Warén & Bouchet: “A new species of Vanikoridae from the western Mediterranean, with remarks on the Northeast Atlantic species of the family”, Bollettino Malacologico vol. 24(5-8), Milano 1988, p. 84.

« The umbilicus is rather narrow for the family, demarcated from the spirally sculptured area by a strong basal keel (more distinct in young specimens) and internally sculptured exclusively by strong axial growth lines marking earlier positions of the inner lip of the aperture. » – Ibid. These growth stops are also visible on the external side of the labrum.