This species bears a strong superficial resemblance to C. apicinum, and is best described by a differential diagnosis ; it is entirely white, not colored ; it has seven whorls in a shell of the same size as an apicinum with six ; the sutures are slightly channelled, and therefore distinctly visible ; there are four instead of nine beaded ribs on the upper side of the last whorl, and the beads arc coarser, the interspaces wide enough to show the lines of growth crossing them ; the nodules on the peripheral rib in this whorl are undulations rather than beads, and sufficiently large to give a crenulated appearance to the border of the shell when viewed from below ; there are eight revolving ribs on the base crossed by fine ridges following the lines of growth ; there is no umbilicus or callus ; the pillar is not grooved or thickened ; the aperture is more oblique and proportionately less wide. Alt. 5.0. mm; Basal diam. 4.12. mm; Alt. of aperture, 1.5. mm; Width of do. 2.0 mm.

It seems to be closest to C. pulchrum (C. B. Adams), but is smaller and has a stronger, more heavily beaded peripheral cord.

Geographic distribution: Off Tampa, Florida, northern Cuba, Barbados and Antigua.
Bathymetric range: From 121 to 1472 m.