« Animal rather small, up to 12mm long, elongate oval, […] subcarinated, the valves beaked, yellowish rose with eventual patches of light green and reddish brown. Evenly granulated all over, the granules tending to form more or less diverging series on the pleural areas. Lateral areas moderately elevated, head valve sometimes with about eight subobsolete radial ribs. Girdle narrow, clothed with not imbricating small calcareous corpuscules and bunches of several long, bent spines. Tegmentum rather coarsely granulated, the granules convex, roundish oval so somewhat diamond shaped, arranged in quincunx on the end valves, the lateral areas and the jugal parts of the intermediate valves, in curved, diverging, longitudinal series on the pleurae of the central areas. Head valve semicircular, the posterior margin forming an obtuse entrant angle, with a rounded notch at the top […] Intermediate valves about rectangular, the front margin a little concave, the hinder margin decidedly beaked, especially in immature specimens, the lateral areas conspicuously raised. Tail valve small, about two fifths of a circle, the anterior margin slightly convex, the mucro subcentral, not prominent, posterior slope a little concave. » – Kaas & Van Belle: “The genus Lepidochitona Gray, 1821 in the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean sea and the Black Sea”, Zoologische Verhandelingen vol.185, p.24-25.