Shell medium sized for the genus, up to 13 mm in length at maturity (paratype MNHN). Length/width ratio 2.0 (paratype). Lanceolate, biconical, broadly ovate. Subsutural ramp broad, strongly sloping, concave.
Shell creamy white, axial ribs light orange coloured near suture. Light tan on crest of some primary spiral cords and at tip of siphonal canal. Aperture white. Spire high, acute, with 3+ protoconeh whorls (tip broken). Teleoconch up to 5 broad, strongly convex, weakly shouldered whorls. Suture strongly adpressed. Protoconeh moderately small, conical, acute. Whorls smooth, glossy. Maximum width 850 µm. Terminal lip of sinusigera type.
Axial sculpture consisting of high, broad, rounded, weakly nodose ribs. Ribs of last whorl connected to preceding whorl with strong buttresses. Other axial sculpture consisting of numerous, very narrow, small, growth lamellae. Spiral sculpture of low, rounded, narrow, smooth primary, secondary and tertiary cords, and additional, few smooth threads. Primary and secondary cords of same strength, tertiary cords narrow. Last whorl with SP, adis, IP, abis, PI, s1, P2, s2, P3, s3, P4, s4. P5, s5, P6, s6, ADP, (ads), MP, ms, ABP, (abs).
Aperture moderately small, ovate. Columellar lip narrow, smooth except 2 or 3 weak knobs abapically. Rim adherent, weakly erect on a small portion abapically. Anal notch deep, broad. Outer lip smooth, with low, narrow denticles within: ID. Dl and D2 fused, D3. D4 and D5. Siphonal canal short, narrow, straight, narrowly open. Operculum and radula unknown.

Cytharomorula elegantula n. sp. differs from C. absidata n. sp. in having a higher, more elongate spire, less shouldered teleoconch whorls, a less concave subsutural ramp and a relatively narrower lasi teleoconch whorl. The spiral cord morphology differs also, consisting of narrower primary, secondary and tertiary cords and more widely spaced primary cords in C. elegantula n . sp.
Cytharomorula pinguis Houart, 1995 differs greatly from C. absidata n. sp. in having a higher spire, strong columellar folds and heavy outer apertural lip denticles, a broader outer apertural lip and much broader, flat, spiral cords. Cytharomorula springsteeni also recorded in New Caledonia differs in its shell morphology. C. springsteeni has also a strongly concave subsutural ramp and adpressed suture, but the shell is lighter, more fragile, with a slightly narrower last teleoconch whorl, narrower axial ribs, less expanded on the preceding whorl, and narrower spiral cords.
Cytharomorula manusuduirauti n. sp. a species here described from the Philippines, is a smaller shell, also with broad axial ribs but which are obviously less expanded on the penultimate whorl. The numerous, narrower, primary, secondary and tertiary cords are of approximately similar strength in C. manusuduirauti and more crowded than in C. absidata n. sp.

Type locality. New Caledonia, 23°18'S, 168°15'E, 187-197 m.
Distribution. Southern New Caledonia, living at 187-197 m.