This species has a typical outline stretched, it is not much elevated and lateral margins are almost straight. Apex is not much bent and it is placed near posterior margin. Sculpture made by radial ribs, regular and quite strong, as wide as interspaces, intersected by concentric striae thinner. Crack is short, uniform white in colour. Perhaps this species is better known under the name Emarginula elongata O. G. Costa, 1829, no usable taxon since preoccupied. It is recognizable from E. adriatica since this last one is more oval in outline, it has a sculpture more finelly reticulated and, in the intersections, there are almost always some small papillae. Average measures of adult specimens are around 8-9 mm in length.

Habitat: it lives under stones too, in the infralittoral zone. News of discoveries up to 250 m quoted in literature is quite doubtful. Distribution: it is found all over the Mediterranean. It is one of the most common species of its genus