« Shell subovate, thick, violet, slightly striate; spire short, rounded-obtuse; apex minute, laterally placed; labrum suboblique, blue-white, broadened posteriorly, subconvex; adapical margin straight, sharp. […] It often bears transverse striations […] its general colour is a purplish blue, sometimes mingled with a paler hue, and still deprived of […] longitudinal lineaments[…] The operculum of the Anatolian Nerite is bluish black on the posterior side and zoned with a rather broad, whitish band, bordered itself by a saffron thread on the anterior side. » – C. A. Récluz: “Description de quelques espèces de Nérites vivantes” part II (november 1841), Revue zoologique, Paris 1841, p.342-343.

Morphologically, the species differs from altenai by a more reduced columellar plate, and a more uniform dark patterning of the periostracum. The species differs from the variant “saulcyi” of fluviatilis by its operculum. Here, some “saulcyi” from Ezouza river, Geroskipou, Paphos, SW. Cyprus, with the typical fluviatilis operculum. 6,6-6,7mm.