Habitat: fundos de lama ou vaza biogênica do talude continental
Alimentação: herbívoro
Frequência: rara
Ocorrência no Brasil: AP e CE (Banco Canopus)
Localidade tipo: off Baía de Honda, Cuba, 402 m ( 23802′39′′N 83810′59′′W )
Sinônimo: Cerithiopsis sigsbeana Dall, 1881
Descrição original: Dall, W. H. (1881). Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Caribbean Sea, 1877-79, by the United States Coast Survey Steamer “Blake,” Lieutenant-Commander C. D. Sigsbee, U. S. N., and Commander J. R. Bartlett, U. S. N., commanding. XV. Preliminary report on the Mollusca. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 9(2): 33-144., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6353276page(s): 87-89
Referência: Fernandes M.R., Garofalo R. & Pimenta A.D. (2015). New species and records of Newtoniellinae (Caenogastropoda, Newtoniellidae) from Brazil. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95(4): 791-804., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315414001933