This crustacean is known from Alexander Bay, South Africa.
In the single examined egg-carrying female holotype, the body is elongated and oval.
The female and male type specimens in this account were collected from the fish Clinus superciliosus at the mouth of the Orange River, Alexander Bay, South Africa, in July 1993.
In the single examined egg-carrying female holotype, the head is roughly triangular, with a blunt anterior point.
In the single examined egg-carrying female holotype, the shorter antennules have eight segments and the longer antennae have eleven.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.