Scaperotta et all:
It is a species small in sizes, solid, conic in form, base convex and whorls either flat or not much convex. Suture incised, sutural belt not much protuberant but giving a scalariform aspect to its outline. Apical angle of about 60°.Last whorl about 70% of total height, and, on the periphery, it is obtusely careened. Surface adorned with spiral belts flat, smooth, each one made by two coupled cords, transverse lamellae missing. Base with spiral belts flat, wide and spaced, binated partially. Aperture subquadrangular with vertical columella, centrally thickened making one angle of 90° with the lower part of the external lip which is sharp. Umbilicus just sketched. Ground light brown in colour, with stains white, mainly on the periphery and at the base. Apex and first whorls of teleconch reddish in colour. The adult specimens average measures are around 4 mm in height.

Recently at Banco di Skerki, in the Channel of Sicily (Italy), at 40-50 m depth, there were found some specimens with beautiful shades light yellow in colour pattern. From the shoals of Pellaro (Reggio Calabria - Calabria - Italy), at -42 m, there were collected several specimens with numerous flammulae narrow, oblique, brown on a beige ground. Even premature forms are easily recognizable due to their special sculpture, made by coupled little cords, clearer in the abapical part of the last whorl and at the base.

It seems this species has a distribution limited to the Sicilian coasts, from the Straits of Messina to the Channel of Sicily (Sicily - Italy). It lives on detrital bottoms in the infralittoral zone.