Endemic to the Maltese islands. Grazer and deposit feeder in the upper infralittoral, where it has been rediscovered living in cobble beds (Evans & Schembri, 2014), the species remains critically endangered, its range being restricted to a few spots. – Dead shells from a detritic bottom, St-Thomas bay, Marsaskala, E. Malta. 7-8mm.

« Shell cyrtoconoid, umbilicate, ash-brown, adorned with subcircular whitish blotches, transversely streaked, weakly striated longitudinallly; aperture subcircular; columella flexuous, base rounded. » – A. Adams: “Contributions towards a monograph of the Trochidae”, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London part XIX, London “1851”, p.187.