[1][2] The epithet minolina was given because of the resemblance with the genus Minolia.

Scheprman has described a variety Ethalia minolia var.

The pretty bright shell has a depressedly conical shape.

They are uniformly very closely striate with threads with a pattern of banded filleting of white and fawn colour.

The deep umbilicus is partly covered by the tongue-shaped callus extending from the columellar margin.