As Gibbula micans Suter:
Shell very small, subperforate or imperforate, conical, slightly iridescent, shining. Sculpture consisting of fine spiral lirae, about 15 on the penultimate whorl, growth-lines inconspicuous. Colour light yellow with radiate oblique broad streaks of dark brown, the intervals with a few light-brown dots ; base tessellated with yellowish and brown. Epidermis very thin, the pearly inner layer shining partly through it. Spire conic, its height greater than that of the aperture, sides very slightly convex. Protoconch small, acute, of 2 convex, light-brown, and finely spirally striate whorls. Whorls 6, flatly convex, the last keeled at the periphery; base convex. Suture very little impressed. Aperture slightly oblique, subquadrangular; interior silvery and finely lirate. Outer and basal lip sharp, angled where they meet, margined with a white band. Columella subvertical, slightly arched, with a slight swelling in the middle. Umbilicus partly or completely covered by the columella expansion; umbilical tract slightly impressed, white.
Diameter, 3,5 mm. ; height, 4 mm.
Hab.—Near Resolution Island (A. Hamilton); Blind Bay, Nelson.