The length of the shell varies between 6 mm and 12 mm.
Cryoturris cerinella recalls
Kurtziella cerina (Kurtz & Stimpson, 1851) by its color, but it is much larger, more drawn out and slender. The shell contains 7 whorls, omitting the
protoconch. It has only six or at most seven ribs, a short
aperture, no
siphonal canal to speak of, and hardly any indentation for a notch. The suture is less appressed and undulate. While the ribs are almost obsolete in the fasciolar region, the angulation is nearly at the periphery and the slopes either way from it are nearly equal. The shell is whitish toward the vertex, ashy on the intermediate
whorls, and with a tendency to orange or flesh-color for the
body whorl. It is never striped or spotted, and the
columella is always like the rest of the body whorl. ==Distribution==