Shell minute, involved, of an exact egg-oval form, white, polished; aperture narrow, slightly wider in front; outer lip thickened hut with no groove behind it; pillar with a thin coating of enamel, pillar short with two prominent and two much less conspicuous plaits; body smooth. Length, 2.G; diameter, 2.8 nun. U. S. Nat. Mus.Cat. No. 107984.
Off Georgia, eighteen, and off Fernandina, one specimen. Cedar Keys, Florida, Hemphill; Charlotte Harbor, Dall; Chesapeake Bayf Bahamas, and various Cuban localities; Henderson.
This is more globose and larger than C. lachrimula Gould.

Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Texas; West Indies. Size: 2 mm.
Description: Color off white translucent in fresh shells; shape ovate-elliptical; sculpture smooth and glossy; spire sunken; aperture entire length of shell, somewhat flaring at both ends; siphonal notch absent; outer lip thickened with a varix on outer edge; inner portion of outer lip denticulate; bottom half of columella with plicae; parietal shield total length of shell.
Habitat: Common in sand and calcareous environments at depths from 0 to 16 m (53 ft). Remarks: Listed as G ovuliformis in Tunnell et al. (1978) and Barrera (2001). G. ovuliformis is found in the Caribbean proper and south to Brazil. See Ode (1986b); Coovert (1988); Coovert and Coovert (1995); Rosenberg et al. (2009).