Shell small for the genus, from 20 to 29.5 mm. Aperture roundly ovate. Columellar lip white, smooth, partially erect on the lower portion of the anterior part. Anal notch deep and relatively large. Outer lip slightly erect, denticulate, briefly striate interiorly. Spire moderately high, consisting of two glossy rounded nuclear whorls and five rounded, squamose postnuclear whorls. Suture slightly appressed. Body whorl bearing three foliate varices, ornamented with four short open frondose spines. Shoulder spine larger and slightly longer, followed by three short, equally distant spines with one or two intermediate spinelets. Other axial sculpture consisting of one large and one very weak intervarical costae. Spiral sculpture consisting of numerous small squamous cords and intermediate threads as in most of all the Chicoreus s.s. species. Siphonal canal moderately long for the genus, finely open, backward recurved at the tip, bearing three upward recurved spines at its end. Shell of a uniform light brown color, aperture white. Dimensions: Holotype 23x13 mm.

Chicoreus cloveri is related to Chicoreus nobilis Shikama, 1977. It presents the same sort of spines and their arrangement is very near. Only the fact that C. cloveri is of a uniform light brown color differentiates it on first sight, although some specimens of C. nobilis are also uniformly coloured. C. cloveri is smaller and, compared with a young C. nobilis, it shows a more elongate shell, The second spine after that of the shoulder is much shorter than for C. nobilis. The most important point (and what makes it surely a different species) is the protoconch: two globulous and glossy whorls, with a shallow terminal varix for C. cloveri; conical, slightly carinate with a very different terminal varix for C. nobilis.

Type locality: Dredged in 180 m, muddy sand, at Tamarin Bay, 20 miles south of Port Louis, Mauritius, 1978.