The body is made of 37 visible segments, each of them has a distinctive ocelli, which is purple or dark color with a white outline and placed in the middle of the upper side.

[3] Small gills, white to deep brown, are present on both external sides of the back just before the bristles and on almost all the segments.

The body is covered laterally with calcareous spines or setae, they have bristle aspect which are whitish, fine, sharp and venomous.

Chloeia flava is widely distributed through the Indo-Pacific area from the east coast of Africa, including the Red Sea, to the Pacific Ocean's islands except Hawaii and Polynesia.

Its diet consists of coral polyps, sponges, sea anemones, hydroids and tunicates.