Watson, 1881 Kurtziella acanthodes is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.

[1] This species is considered by Tucker as a synonym of Kurtziella serga (Dall, W.H., 1881) (Original description) Shell.— The high and narrow shell has a biconical shape and is ribbed and spiralled.

Between this keel and the root of the snout there are on the body whorl six weaker threads, which all rise into tubercles as they cross the ribs.

The spire is conical, scalar, in consequence of the drooping projecting shoulder at the top of each whorl.

The protoconch consists of 3½ embryonic whorls, which are conically globose, smooth, keeled, closely, roundedly ribbed, with a deepish suture, and rise to a minute point (crushed).

It presents a flattened, but regular curve from the point of the shell to the keel, where the edge forms a little shoulder, between which and the body lies the narrow round small sinus, with its flanged border.