Shell ovate, ventricose, very thin, of a pale-chestnut color, irregularly varied with paler longitudinal belts; spire not much produced; whorls six, ventricose, somewhat abruptly rounded behind, with fine spiral striae, and a few distant stronger ones crossed by minute lines of growth, giving the surface a wrinkled or shagreen appearance, visible only by the aid of a lens; body-whorl one-third longer than the spire; mouth roundish ovate, one-half longer than the spire; outer lip thin, sublobed in front; interior of a pale-chestnut or fawn color; columella smooth, pellucid, short, much and regularly arched, the bend more forward than usual; epidermis of a greenish horn-color with a delicate silky gloss when held to the light, caused by the minute cilia that clothe it, which through a lens are perceived to rise from fine longitudinal laminae; the cilia are regular and not much crowded. Length, 1; breadth, 11/16 in. (Hancock.)
TYPE in? Type locality, west coast of Davis's Strait. RANGE. Arctic Ocean; circumboreal.