This shrimp is known from Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
In the examined specimens, the rostrum is short and curves downwards.
It favours well-oxygenated fresh water from lower to upper river courses.
In the observed living specimens, the body is dark throughout, sometimes with a white dorsal band from the rostrum to the telson.
In the examined specimens, the second leg is longer and more slender than the first.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.