Shell ovate or subfusiform: white: longitudinally plicately ribbed; with close-set, well elevated spiral ridges which are continuous over the longitudinal folds, and are closely and finely but strongly imbricated, and of which the alternate ones are often much smaller: apex acute: spire with the outlines almost rectilinear: whorls about seven, quite convex, with a rather deep suture: aperture obovate: lip rather sharp, serrated by the sculpture; labium with a moderate deposit: umbilicus slight. An old shell is subcanaliculate.
Mean divergence 55°; length of spire .26 inch; total length .47 inch; breadth .27 inch. Of another specimen, mean divergence 65°; length .46 inch; breadth .3 inch.

Coralliophila aberrans (C. B. Adams, 1850) Globose Coralsnail
Distribution: Massachusetts to Gulf of Mexico, Texas; Caribbean; Brazil. Size: 23 mm.
Description: Color whitish; shape ovate; sculpture of numerous rounded axial ridges and closely spaced spiral cords that continue over the axial sculpture; spire extended and acute; suture incised; aperture oval; siphonal canal short; parietal shield short.
Habitat: Found in sand and calcareous environments.
Remarks: Living specimens are rare; however, a number of dead specimens have been collected on Stetson Bank. Depth range from shoreline to about 525 m (1722 ft). See Warmke and Abbott (1961); Ode (1973c); Alvarado (1996).