[5][6] It is named for James Lawson Drummond, who collected the holotype at Carnlough, Ireland in 1836.

[4][7] Echiodon drummondii is reddish in colour with a silvery abdomen, operculum and iris and dark markings on the head.

[8] It has an eel-like body, up to 30 cm (1 ft) in length, making it among the largest of the family.

Echiodon drummondii is bathydemersal, living at depths of 52–403 m (171–1,322 ft) in the North Sea and the waters surrounding Great Britain and Ireland;[8] it has also been recorded off Iceland and the Azores.

[10] Echiodon drummondii can be free-living and feeds on small invertebrates, fish and bottom-dwellers.