Madeira to Alborán, to Canarias. Predator in the infralittoral (north, west) down to the continental shelf and slope (south). The species is present as fossil in the glauconiferous sands with Glycymeris pilosa (Linnaeus, 1767) from Anvers, Belgium. As G. pilosa is never a deep water species, one may consider the finds of minima in relatively shallow water as possible (bathymetry ranging from 8m to 680m in Verhecken, 2007).

« Shell subfusiform, imperforated, spire rather elongated, whorls rounded, obliquely ribbed, ribs obtusely noduled at the upper part, interstices neatly cancellated; white, sometimes brownish; columella obsoletely two-plaited. » – L. A. Reeve: Conchologia iconica vol. X, London 1858, “Cancellaria” plate XVII species 77.