Cantabrian Sea to Cabo Verde, Azores, Madeira and lusitanian seamounts to Mediterranean. Micropredator and parasite on sea-anemones and corals from the low infralittoral and the circalittoral (coastal detritic and silt), down to 500m deep. Planktotrophic larval development (multispiral protoconch). Original taxon: Scalaria algeriana. 110m deep, off Motril, Granada, Andalucia, S. Spain. 4,4-5,2mm.

Close to E. tiberii but the protoconch is longer (4 whorls instead of 3), often somewhat brownish, with only some weak subsutural striae; teleoconch: whorls 6-8, convex, white, separated from each other by a deep suture; radial sculpture made up of 14-15 sharp laminar ribs per whorl, less elevated than in tiberii and less chipped, with an slightly angular contour below the suture; spiral sculpture made up of numerous fine striae. There is also some radial microsculpture, result of the growth. The radials are markedly prosocline.