Algarve to Canarias, Mediterranean. Scavenger and predator, from subtidal to lower sublittoral (3-180m in litterature); locally common in coralligen. Original taxon: Donovania procerula. Colour: chestnut to orange brown, sometimes pale yellow with brown subsutural band (western Alborán area, Cádiz).

Protoconch paucispiral. On the nucleus, the sculpture is made up of flat and wide spiral ridges; in their interspaces appear a microsculpture of commarginal transverse lamellae. This sculpture continues on the first half of the protoconch whorl, after what appear the first radial costae; the spiral ridges become coarser, and the first buttons appear at the end of the second half of the whorl.

Whorls moderately convex, separated from each other by a slightly sinuous suture, marked but not deep. Sculpture made up of well developed radial costae crossed by numerous spiral beads that are a little wider than their interspaces; these beads run on the radials, where they thicken locally, growing into buttons especially at the periphery – but not on all shells.

Pale shells could be confused with those of recondita, but the Longitudinal costae are most numerous in recondita, the protoconch is more lengthened (like in brunnea), and there are traces of labial denticles inside the aperture (like in brunnea again). – 55m deep, Ognina, Catania, E. Sicilia. 4,9mm.