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Shell small, thin, white, with a Sinusigera nucleus of two and a half brown whorls and three and a half subsequent well rounded whorls; suture closely appressed, somewhat constricted; anal sulcus deep and wide, the fasciole close to the suture, crossed by retractively arcuate wrinkles; axial sculpture of about 16 very narrow sharp ribs, with much wider interspaces, completely crossing the whorls except the anal fasciole; spiral sculpture of (on the last whorl 6) slender threads with much wider interspaces, so that the interstices of the reticulation are nearly square; the canal is finely spirally threaded; pillar short, straight, attenuate in front, gyrate, with pervious axis; aperture narrow, outer lip thin, arcuately produced in front. Length, 5.5; diameter, 2.25 mm. U. S. Nat. Mus. Cat. No. 333520.
Three specimens off Fernandina.
This species has nucleus markedly spirally unicarinate, while in most of the species with the Sinusigera nucleus the whorls are rounded.
Dall, W.H., 1927. Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United States by the United States Fisheries Steamer 'Albatross' in 1885 and 1886.