Members of the genus have subdiscoidal shells with four whorls that are up to in size, with flat or slightly convex spires. Climocella has either sharp ribs, or rounded ribs with microscopicspiral lirae, and a protoconch with up to 12 spiral striae. The shells of the species are typically uniformly white, brown, or a reddish-brown pattern of axial bands or blotches on a white or off-white background. The animal is white, and has a prominent epiphallus.
Taxonomy
Climocella was first described by James Frederick Goulstone in 1995, who named Patula corniculum var. maculata as the type species. Goulstone named the genus after malacologist FrankClimo. Describing five in the original paper, Climo described ten new species in the genus within the next two years.