[2] The shell is extremely small, oval-cylindric and obtuse at the summit, of a more or less deep brown, smooth and dull.

[3] The aperture is scarcely longer than wide, and nearly round, furnished with four teeth, of which the superior is acute, two deeply placed inferior, and finally one on the columellar margin.

[3] (description as Vertigo heldi) The shell is rimate, turreted, irregularly and very finely striate, of reddish-brown color, glossy.

Aperture is toothed, the teeth are reddish, very weak and placed deep in the throat: 1 tooth on the middle of the parietal wall, 1 on the columella, 2 very weakly developed, frequently wanting, on the palatal wall.

[4][3] This species occurs in Europe in the following countries and islands: And in America, in various places including: This article incorporates public domain text from reference.