Color in life unknown. Preserved specimens with numerous white spots on cheek, snout, lips and chin; with around 7 H-shaped double bars (decreasing posteriorly) on sides of body and speckled with small white spots. Dorsal fin with shallow notch. Pectoral rays usually 14; segmented caudal rays 13, middle 9 branched; supraorbital tentacle composed of a simple unbranched slender filament; cirrus on each side of nape small and simple; nasal cirrus unbranched lanceolate filament; upper and lower lip margins smooth; with well-developed occipital crest (ca. equal to eye diameter in males and shorter by half in females); last anal ray and caudal peduncle connected by membrane; body depth at anal-fin origin approximately 4.9-5.3 in SL (Ref. 90102).