« Shell small for the genus (h: 4/5 mm); solid, generally slightly cirtoconoidal in shape. Protoconch of about one and a half whorls, smooth, globose. Teleoconch formed by 5/6 whorls, the two first ones convex; sculpture of 3/4 spiral grooves, separated by a more salient basal cord. The successive whorls are flat, crossed by 4/6 (mean 5) sub-spinal spiral cords, separated by interspaces of a smaller width than the cords, and crossed by very fine opisthocline growth-lines. In some specimens the cords progressively narrow into amplitude, generating more developed interspaces. The basal cord, weakly marked, becomes progressively more evident, so much so as to make the last whorl more or less dullly hinged to the periphery. » – M. Curini Galletti: “Note ai Trochidae: IX - Jujubinus ruscurianus”, Bolletino malacologico XVIII, Milano 1982.