Commonly known as the wrinkled flat-backed millipede, this species belongs to the order Polydesmida and the family Xystodesmidae.

It inhabits forests in the southeastern United States, particularly those with hemlock, maple, tulip poplar, rhododendron, cedar, and spruce-fir trees.

[2] This study found no evidence supporting the previously proposed subspecies based on morphological data.

[3] Instead, it revealed that C. georgiana exhibits significant morphological variation, specifically in characters such as the shape of the paranota and body size.

[4] It stands apart from other genera of Xystodesmidae due to distinct characteristics, including a wrinkly texture on its dorsal surface, horizontally wide paranota with minimal downward curvature, a straight telopodite on its gonopod (as opposed to the curved or twisted form found in the Apheloriini), a long icepick-like prefemoral process on the telopodite, and the absence of a receptacle in females' cyphopods.