“Shell dextral, turbinately pyramidal, narrowly umbilicated; sculpture very fine close regular costulation, slightly better defined at the sutural tube, quite smooth thence to the aperture; colour very pale with a slight tint of sea-green; spire high; apex pointed; suture well impressed, the sutural tube fine and short; whorls 5½, sides convex, the last with a slight contraction in front of the sutural tube; aperture circular; peristome sharply edged, the outer lip being much expanded and rising on the last whole but one and contracting again on the inner margin; columellar margin circular.”
– Godwin-Austen (1889) original descriptions –