« Shell globose, terminal produced, exterior margin small and sharp-edged, spire discernible but obscured, ribs rather strong, as broad as the densely and finely granulated interstices, dorsal sulcus long, small, smooth, ribs here interrupted, strengthened into small tubercles, aperture wide laterally, outer lip drawn out posteriorly, inner lip anteriorly sharply tapered, in the middle rounded into the aperture, pointed posteriorly, curved leftward, somewhat collared where connected with the inner lip, fossula broad and deep, columellar sulcus somewhat indistinct. Dorsum brownish-rose, on the side more yellowish-rose, terminal and exterior margin strongly rose-colored, base (with the exception of the edges) yellowish-white. » – C. N. Cate: “A review of the Triviidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)”, Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History vol.10, San Diego 1979, p.40.