Shells small, imperforate, with a tall spire, a dominant axial sculpture and a short siphonal canal. One genus only in the family.
 

Shell small, tall-spired, « with regularly increasing whorls but rather blunt apex; sculpture consisting of fine spiral cords and weak to strong axial ribs; protoconch paucispiral with broad tip, usually with specific sculpture; aperture round to semi-oval with moderately thick outer lip; columella smooth without parietal knob and without columellar folds, siphonal canal broad but short. » – Hoffman, Fraussen & Freiwald: “The genus Chauvetia (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea) in deep-water coral habitats on the continental slope of Mauritania”, Miscellanea Malacologica vol.7(6), Duivendrecht 2018, p.127-128.