This shrimp is known from Lake Poso on Sulawesi, Indonesia.
In the examined specimens, the rostrum is very short and does not extend beyond the eyes.
It lives on very fine sand or silt in shallow water in Lake Poso.
In the observed living specimens, the body is transparent to whitish with minute sand-coloured dots.
In the examined specimens, the first two pairs of chelae are small, with sparse hairs near the fingertips.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.