Rostrum slightly sigmoidal or straight, tip uptilted, sometimes toothless on distal 1/4, reaching from middle of second to distal margin of third antennular article and armed with 7 or 8 (rarely 9) dorsal teeth. epigastric tooth present; postrostral crest ending near posterior margin of carapace. Telson armed with 2 to 4 pairs of distolateral spinules, pale brown or faintly pinkish with brown-grey specks and dorsal transverse brawn bands on abdomen. Pereopods whitish, pleopods brownish, both speckled; uropods dark grey distally