This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: deep caudal peduncle, deeper than the preanal region of the body, as the result of an expanded skin fold involving procurrent caudal-fin rays; vertebrae 51 or 52; process on the dorsal surface of the autopalatine articular facet for the mesethmoid absent; mesethmoid cornu being slightly posteriorly folded; dorsal fin present; dorsal-fin origin at a vertical between the centra of the 31st to 33rd vertebrae, anal-fin origin at a vertical between the centra of the 32nd and 33rd vertebrae; ventral projection on the hyomandibula articular facet for the opercle absent; parhypural posterior process length about half or slightly less of the length between the anterior margin of the parurohyal head and the proximal limit of the posterior process; ventral procurrent caudal-fin rays 31-36 (Ref. 137686).