Brusina had previously named this species pygmaea in his “Conchiglie dalmate inedite” of 1865, but he had to change it « because it was used by Grateloup for a fossil species of France, which also was found in the basin of Vienna and in Transylvania. » – S. Brusina: Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi dalmati, Wien 1866, p.69.

Turbonilla pygmaea in S. Brusina, 1865: « The smallest of our local species, turreted and white. It has 7 whorls, which are rounded and convex, divided by a deep suture, with about 18 longitudinal arched folds separated by large interspaces; it is devoid of transversal striae; the aperture is ovate, the columella is semi-straight and has a small fold; the apex is obtuse. It differs from all the other species by its smallness, to be more turriculate, for the very rounded and less numerous whorls, for the arcuate folds and for the obtuse apex. »