Holotype: Shell small for the subgenus; ground color gray, subsutural band and basal cords dark orange; aperture 1/3 the length of the shell; shoulder concave below a broad, inflated subsutural band. Protoconch glossy black, whorls 2; postnuclear whorls 8. Axial sculpture of 22 low ribs crossed by spiral cords of nearly equal strength and spacing, producing squarish orange beads at intersections, one such row of encircling beads on early whorls, 4 on the penultimate and 12 altogether on the final whorl, more closely spaced upon the pillar; entire surface finely striate throughout. Sinus broad and shallow, bordered on the inside by curved and layered parietal callus; lip slightly thickened behind the edge; stromboid notch shallow; anterior canal broad and shallow, slightly twisted to the left; inner lip callus raised only on the pillar. Height, 11.1, diameter, 4.3 mm.

Crassispira currani differs from C. trimariana Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932, in having a more concave shoulder, more numerous spiral cording and dark orange rather than dingy yellow tubercles.

Tropical East Pacific. Type Locality: Sayulita, Nayarit, Mexico.