Shell small, pale straw color, thin, with about five well-rounded whorls, the nucleus eroded; suture distinct, not appressed; axial sculpture of fine close minute incremental lines on which the periostracum rises in minute, equal lamellae; spiral sculpture of low, minute, equal threads with equal or wider interspaces, over the whole surface; aperture with the outer lip simple, arcuate, with the extreme margin slightly expanded; inner lip white, erased; pillar short, thin, twisted; canal wide, deeply excavated, hardly differentiated. Height of shell, 20; of last whorl, 16; of aperture, 11; diameter, 11 mm. (Dall.)
TYPE in United States National Museum, No. 110534a. Type locality, United States Fish Commission Station 2853, off Alaska peninsula.
RANGE. Southeastern Bering Sea, off Alaska peninsula, in 159 fathoms.