Distribution: Texas, Florida to Brazil; Bermuda. Size: 8 to 10 mm.
Description: Color uniform dull white to tannish; shape broadly conic; sculpture of many axial, bladelike costae that do not connect with subsequent whorls; spiral sculpture of small threads between costae and even finer, microscopic axial threads intersecting the spiral threads within the inner spaces; nuclear whorls smooth; aperture subcircular; parietal shield over umbilical area; costae on body whorl pass under parietal shield and into umbilicus.
Habitat: Found from shoreline to a depth of about 244 m (800 ft).
Remarks: Rare species. Similar to E. novangliae, but lacks the hooklike structures that occur in the shoulder region. See Clench and Turner (1952).