Shell conical, moderately solid, usually quite as high as broad but with a rather variable height/breadth ratio, to 10.5 mm high X 10.8 mm broad. Protoconch as in genus. Teleoconch of 6-7 whorls. Spire sculptured with spiral cords, as wide as interspaces; cords made rugose by intersection with growth lines, or nearly smooth. First teleoconch whorl with three spiral cords and a fine subsutural thread, number of spirals later increased by intercalation of additional cords to 6-10 on adapical part of last whorl. Profile of first teleoconch whorl convex, of later whorls less so; shell profile regularly continued from one whorl to another. Suture underlined by adapical spiral cord. Periphery of last whorl forming a blunt angle, covered by a cluster of 3-4 fine spiral threads. Abapical surface quite convex, bearing 10-12 spiral cords as wide as interspaces, crossed by growth lines but not beaded. Axis with a narrow umbilical chink, bordered or covered by columellar edge. Aperture as in genus. Shell colour whitish to yellowish, nacre generally showing through, some specimens nearly without pattern, others with cords articulated by brown or reddish flecks; flecks aligned to form axial flames on most intensely coloured individuals; abapical cords colourless or less intensely marked than adapical.

This species was collected in the remarkable context of deep-water mud volcanoes of the eastern Mediterranean. It is broadly sympatric with C. miliaris the south coast of Crete from which it differs mainly in the spiral cords which are not beaded. The profile is also broader, the abapical surface has more cords and the axis has a small umbilical chink in most specimens.

Only known from the eastern Mediterranean, around deep-water cold seeps, alive in 1700-2030 m.