« Shell suborbicular, spire small, scarcely exserted, whorls flatly convex, columellar area rather narrow, slanting; dull white, marked with delicate interrupted black flexuous lines. […] A small, rather compressly convoluted species, marked with characteristic faintly pencilled blackish flexuous lines, more or less interrupted. » – L. A. Reeve: “Monograph of the genus Neritina”, Conchologia Iconica vol. IX, London 1856, plate XXX, fig.138.