See text Wentletraps are small, often white, very high-spired, predatory or ectoparasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae.

The more or less turret-shaped shell consists of tightly-wound (sometimes loosely coiled), convex whorls, which create a high, conical spiral.

These costae may offer some protection against other predatory snails, which would find it difficult or impossible to bore a hole in a shell with such obstructions.

Wentletraps are usually found on sandy bottoms near sea anemones or corals, which serve as a food source for them.

[5][6] Keen also cited direct observation of a wentletrap feeding by insertion of its proboscis into a sea anemone.