Distribution: North Carolina, south Florida, west coast of Florida, Texas; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands; Panama. Size: Diameter 3.4 mm; altitude 2.0 mm. Description: Color translucent white in live or fresh material to opaque in worn or dead specimens; shape trochoid, shell thin and fragile; sculpture of a low, narrow peripheral keel bearing many projecting teeth that vary in size; faint wavy axial growth lines on top and bottom of body whorl; protoconch slightly more than 1 whorl; spire low but not as depressed as in most tornids; umbilicus narrow, flat sided, deep, and bounded by an angle or keel; aperture flattened, oval. Habitat: In sand, mud, and rocky outcrops. All along Texas coastline from shoreline to depth of about 128 m (420 ft).
Remarks: Uncommon but widespread shallow-water species. See Moore (1964); Ode and Speers (1969h); Tunnell and Chaney (1970). Synonym: Vitrinella multicarinata Dall, 1889.