This shrimp is known from Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Indonesia.
In the observed living specimens, the body is usually dark red to black with a lighter dorsal band.
It lives in lower river courses near estuaries and in pools of brackish water.
In the examined specimens, the second leg is longer and more slender than the first.
In the examined specimens, along the back edge of the telson, the feather-like intermediate setae are much longer than the lateral ones.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.