Range: Very extended. From Baja California southwards to the Peruvian coast.
Habitat: From the low tide level down to 20 m on coarse sand and gravel, often hidden under the stone.
Description: Shell small, solid, fusiform, with a shiny surface, 30-40 mm in length. Protoconch very small, turbinate with two smooth beige coloured whorls. Spire pointed, moderately high. Teleoconch with 6-7 shouldered whorls. Sculpture of 9-10 low rounded nodules on the whorl shoulders, extending abapically as low axial ribs on the body whorl. A shallow spiral dip dents the axial ribs on the mid body whorl, forming like a second row of faint nodules. Aperture narrow measuring 0.70 of the total length. Outer lip beveled and strongly thickened outside by a varix, bearing inside a blunt labral denticle at the midpoint. Columella slighty arched with 3-4 equal plaits followed by 1-2 weak lirae. Fasciole indistinct. Siphonal notch deep and narrow. Background colour beige with a subsutural row of squarish black blotches, overlaid by a brown dense tent-like pattern often reduced to three large bands, delimiting on the body whorl two pale spiral strips marked with black dots. Aperture and columella beige. Animal: Radula is tricuspid, the high central cusp interlocking.

Comparison: This nodulose species is unmistakable. Its relative Enaeta barnesi is a squat oval shell with blunt axial ribs only. Remarks: A common shell, though live taken specimens with the glossy surface are hard to find.

TYPE: Holotype, British Museum (Natural History), London, No. 1837.12.1.75. TYPE LOCALITY: Gulf of Fonseca, El Salvador, Central America. RANGE: From Magdalena Bay, Lower California, south to Peru. HABITAT: In sandy mud at low tide to at least 10 fathoms on a shell and gravel substrate. DIMENSIONS: Adult specimens are 24 to 30 mm in length. SHELL DESCRIPTION: Shell is small. It is fusiform and solid, with a high, pointed spire. Protoconch is small and globose, of two smooth whorls. Teleoconch has seven and a half to eight strongly sculptured whorls. Sculpture consists of low, rounded nodules on whorl shoulders, extending as low, broad axial ribs on the adult body whorl. There are about nine such nodules on the penultimate whorl of a shell 26 mm in length. Ribs are slightly humped at the periphery of the adult body whorl, giving the appearance of a second revolving row of smaller nodules. Early whorls have fine, closely spaced, revolving lirae. Suture is slightly impressed and sinuous. Aperture is narrow; interior is cream colored. Outer lip is inflexed and thickened outside by a broad, obtuse ridge. It is furnished inside with a low, blunt tooth about midpoint. Siphonal notch is narrow and deep; fasciole indistinct. Colu- mella is slightly arched, with three anterior plaits followed by three or four weaker plaits covering two thirds of the parietal area. Base color is cream, profusely clouded with blotches and spots of various shades of brown that usually occur just below the suture. There is a pale, revolving band at the periphery of the adult body whorl. A horny operculum is present. ANIMAL AND RADULA: Not available for study. REMARKS: A narrow form was given the name pedersenii by Verrill (1870). It is our opinion that Verrill's taxon represents nothing more than an attenuated Enaeta cumingii, and so we have relegated it to the synonymy of that species. The species was named for Mr. Hugh Cuming, the well known early nineteenth century conchologist. It is rather uncommon.