«  Globose, conic, shining, pellucid, horn-coloured, with 4 whorls, the last considerably the largest, marked by slight lines of growth; aperture oval, the inner lip expanded and partly covering a moderately sized umbilicus; suture not deep. » – C. Thorpe: British marine conchology; Being a descriptive catalogue, arranged according to the Lamarckian system, of the salt water shells of Great Britain, London 1844, p.xlii.

Paludinella littorina (Delle Chiaje, 1828) is not a mispelling on the synonym littorea Jeffreys, but is itself a synonym of the taxon Melarhaphe neritoides (Linnaeus, 1758). It has no relation to the present species. – 5-10m deep, Ceuta. 1,2mm.