This amphipod usually inhabits mountain and glacier lakes.
The described adults are greyish, brown or greenish in life.
It usually lives in mountain and glacier lakes; in places such as Denmark, it also occurs in lowland lakes.
In the described adults, the lower rear corners of the second and third abdominal side plates are sharply pointed.
In the described adults, the terminal segments of the third to seventh pairs of legs are very slender.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.