Characterized by whitish body color; side of body with four brown bars including caudal fin base; pale spaces between main body bars with narrower dark bars dorsally; presence of blackish spot above and behind upper opercular margin; operculum with irregular dusky brown blotch; pelvic fins united with frenum; without median predorsal scales; longitudinal scale series 116-129; greatest depth of body 5.9-7.2 in SL; moderately long caudal fin, 2.9-3.1 in SL (Ref. 90102).