This amphipod is known from Greece and Turkey and lives in fast-flowing water over stony bottoms.
In adults, living specimens are brown to greenish.
It has been recorded from clear, fast-flowing water with a stony bottom.
The third and fourth legs of adult males are densely covered with long, straight setae.
In adults, the height of the dorsal projections varies geographically: they are high in the Turkish type-locality population and can be very low in Fthiotis, Greece.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.