The shell can bear a very variable top, « with a spire ranging from protruding to sunken within an apical umbilicus » (Crocetta & Tringali, 2015, after Oliveiro & Tringali, 2001). Monterosato notes: « apice depresso » about Jeffrey’s Utriculus obtusus var. “minor”, from which he extracts the present species. A typical feature, in association with the stocky shape and the small size, is the median constriction of the last whorl.