« Shell conoidal, dark brown coloured, adorned with a mosaic of white patches; whorls 6, spirally furrowed and striated obliquely, slightly flattened at the suture; base round; umbilicus small, white; aperture subquadrate.  – E. Forbes: “Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology”, Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1843, London 1844, p.190.