See Adams (1850b) and Clench & Turner (1950). Protoconch is not present, neither in the holotype of C. lata nor in C. buijsei. Several protoconchs were studied in the material from Cuba. It has about 4 whorls or a little less, is milk white and smooth. Teleoconch with a band of light brown which includes the suture and the subsutural cord (nodules lighter); spiral cord 2 is sometimes white and sometimes slightly brown, but lighter than the upper one, or only with brown in the internodular spaces. One further spiral cord at the base: brown with liqhter nodules. Below this fourth spiral cord the base may totally be brown or white, only leaving the lower end of the siphonal canal brown. Animal whitish with very small spots behind the eyes and in the dorsal part of the foot.

Distribution: Texas; Greater Antilles; Central America. Size: 3 mm
Description: Color of first spiral beaded cord reddish-brown, second spiral beaded cord lighter brown, third spiral beaded cord white, same pattern on each teleoconch whorl, protoconch white with a narrow dark band on the suture; shape fusiform; sculpture of 3 beaded spiral cords attached by concave spiral and axial, somewhat rounded riblets; protoconch smooth; aperture subcircular; siphonal canal abrupt.
Habitat: Tropical calcareous environments. In Texas found on offshore reefs and banks from shoreline to a depth of 44 m (144 ft). Remarks: See Ode (1989c); Barrera (2001).

We have compared the holotypes of C. lata and C. buijsei and the only differences found were that the brown band reaches the second spiral cord and that the nodules are a little smaller in the latter. These differences are not important and we consider both conspecific. Variation in the morphological characteristics of the shell are numerous in the studied material. The differences with other species will be exposed below in the remarks for the following species.

This species has been recorded from Jamaica (type locality), Dutch Islands (De Jong & Coomans, 1988), Bahamas (Redfern, 2001), Puerto Rico (Warmke & Abbott, 1961), the northwest of the Gulf of Mexico (Ode, 1989), and Cuba, Nicaragua and Yucatan in the present work.