Distribution
Locus typicus: "Peanut Island, Palm Beach Inlet of Lake Worth, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA."Description
Original description: "Shell small for genus, very elongated, with rounded whorls; whorls without varices, circular in cross-section; cylindrical in shape, siphonal canal short, open, barely developed; outer lip flaring, thickened, producing single varix (on adult specimens); aperture round; body whorl sculptured with 9-12 large beaded cords; subsutural beaded cord often largest, separated from other body whorl cords by narrow gap without sculpturing; shell color grayish-white with beads on spiral cords being black; inner edge of lip with evenly-spaced black dots; cords often with one white bead between two black beads, producing a tessellated appearance; interior of aperture white."Petuch, E.J. 1987-''New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas'', page 23. Publ: CERF The maximum recorded shell length is 11 mm.Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". '' PLOS One'' 5(1): e8776. .Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 0 m.References
Cerithiidae Gastropods described in 1987 {{Cerithiidae-stub