Shell as in C. burnupi, but with a row of white dots (usually raised) on ribs at level of paries: axial ribs continue to rostrum (or nearly so) and are arcuate on spire whorls; each whorl sometimes slightly overhanging that below; anal sinus somewhat narrower; protoconch smaller (breadth 0.65-0,68 mm), lower (b/h 1,36-1,63) and often brown; adult length 7,4-12,5 mm.
Description: Shell narrowly claviform (b/1 0,33-0,39, a/l 0,31-0,39), with an acute, slightly cyrtoconic spire and moderately short, truncate base; suture shallow, teleoconch whorls about 7, subsutural region only shallowly concave (without distinct cord or sulcus), basal ½-2/3 of whorl gently and evenly convex, somewhat overhanging subsequent whorl, periphery at basal third, no trace of shoulder; left side of base of body whorl concave, fasciole slight, false umbilicus feeble and rimate. Aperture oblong-ovate, greatest width more or less median, labrum somewhat straight medially; siphonal canal moderately wide, short, termination not indented; labial callus thick, forming weak to moderately strong pad in posterior angle of aperture, constricting anal sinus, outer edge of callus not free on columella; labrum thin, gently curved in side-view, with distinct stromboid notch and moderately shallow, openly U-shaped anal sinus, directed slightly adapically.
Glossy, sculptured by low, suturc-to-suture axial ribs, one behind lip being varicoid, and 5-8 declivous spiral lirae on rostrum; microsculpture of fine growth-lines and faint spiral striae. Axial ribs weak below suture, on body whorl extending anteriorly almost to rostrum, opisthoclinc, on spire whorls somewhat arcuate, narrower than intervals, crests somewhat rounded, with sloping sides, 10-12 ribs per whorl.
Patterned with a median zone of strong to moderate yellowish-brown, rostrum, ribs and often subsutural region yellowish-white, usually with an occasional moderate yellowish-brown blotch between ribs; base of body whorl with a row of white dots, which are situated on ribs and are usually raised, and on back of lip divide median brown zone into two; protoconch often yellowish-brown.
Protoconch domed, of about 1,75whorls, 1st one somewhat depressed, smooth except for a few terminal axial riblets; breadth 0,65-0,68 mm, height 0,40-0,50 mm (b/h 1,36-1,63). Dimensions: 9,1x3,3 mm (holotype); largest adult paratype 12,5 mm (lip broken), smallest 7,4 x 2,9 mm. Operculum oblanceolate, nucleus terminal, apex blunt, growth-lines coarse; brownish-orange. Radula as in T. burnnpi, but rachidian plate broader; about 36 rows of teeth.

Littoral of northern Mozambique.