Known from the European Atlantic coasts and the Baltic Sea, this amphipod lives in shallow marine waters.
Adult males have small eyes and angular lateral lobes on the head.
It lives in shallow marine waters.
The revision author observed it from the intertidal zone down to about 30 m.
In adult males, the body segments near the tail bear laterally compressed dorsal humps, most prominently on the first two segments of the urosome.
In adult males, the second and third epimeral plates have strongly produced, pointed posterior corners.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.