The species is distinguished from all Stevardiinae species by the following set of characters: adult males with enlarged urogenital papilla (length about one-third to half of the first unbranched ray), which is in contact with the first anal-fin unbranched ray and a highly modified anal fin, with enlarged (anteroposteriorly) and distally elongated first and second branched anal-fin rays, forming a gonopodium-like structure; differs from its congenerspresence of an adipose fin (vs. absent); lateral line incomplete, pored scales not reaching the caudal fin (vs. lateral line complete); ascending process of the premaxilla dorsally directed (vs. strongly bent posteroventrally); snout longe, about a fourth of the head length (HL), between 23.1%- 30.0% of HL (vs. short snout, <20% of the HL) (Ref. 132484).