Oenopota fidicula: Shell small, thin, dirty white, turreted, short fusiform. Surface sculptured with delicate, regular, obtuse, longitudinal rib-folds, about twenty-four on the last whorl, on the middle of which they disappear, decussated by more crowded, delicate grooves, a little undulating, about eight on the penultimate whorl, cutting the longitudinal ribs, and extending to the origin of the beak, whorls seven, angular, forming a broad shoulder at the suture, which is well-impressed, the last one three-fifths the length of the shell, abruptly forming a short nearly direct beak. Aperture less than one-half the length of the shell, narrow; lip, posteriorly, gently arcuate, sharp, and delicately crimped by the striae; pillar arched retrally, then straight, smoothly rounded, white; interior white. Length of axis 9/20 of an inch; breadth equal to half the length. (Gould.)

Oenopota fidicula: RANGE. Aleutian Islands, to Bellingham Bay, Puget Sound.