The shell is small or medium-sized, slender or moderately slender. The
whorls are angulated at the periphery or rounded. The
protoconch is slender or moderately slender, the apex generally rising abruptly, consisting of about 21⁄2 or 3 whorls. The
body whorl or half whorl bears curved, protractive axial riblets and generally bulges at its periphery. The
aperture is moderately narrow. The anterior canal is very short or hardly differentiated, slightly emarginate. The outer
lip is simple, except at intervals corresponding to position of varix-like ribs. The anal notch is wide, shallow, or moderately deep. The
sculpture consists of axial ribs, overridden by fine spiral threads and by microscopic frosted spiral threads.
This genus is the tropical representation of the temperate genus Kurtziella with a similar aperture and sculpture.[2]
W. P. Woodring. 1928. Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results . Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies
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