This species is distinguished from the other gobiine genera by the following set of characters: head and body deep and compressed; no crest-like dermal ridge along the predorsal midline;

no free pectoral-fin rays; head and predorsal midline are naked; a single transverse sensory-papillae row p at interorbital area over sensory canal between pores C and D; seven distinct and long transverse rows of sensory papillae (rows 1-7) below the eye where row b is long and extending from transverse row 3 to posterior margin of cheek, row 5 divided into two parts (viz., rows 5s and 5i) by longitudinal row b, and not extending beyond row d ventrally, row n (divided into two parts by anterior part of longitudinal row x1) transverse and very long, extending ventrally beyond a horizontal line through pore F, then row f comprised of a pair of short longitudinal rows of papillae; well-developed sensory canals on head, with pores B', C(S), D(S), E, F, G, H', K', L', M', N and O';l typical 'Bathygobius Group' (sensu Birdsong et al., 1988) type of axial skeletal features, e.g., P-V 3/II II I I 0/9; 10{1727 vertebrae; with two anal pterygiophores anterior to first haemal arch, and a single epural (Ref. 128872).