Body well elongated, compressed. Head small, short. Snout short. 
Eye high, advanced in head. Mouth moderate,well inclined, lower jaw 
protruding. Ho barbels on chin. Teeth in several rows in each jaw, with 
large, spaced, fang like canines. Palate toothless. Tongue long, partly 
free. Gill openings wide, isthmus narrow. Gill rakers numerous, long, 
slender. Psendobranchiae present. Shoulder girdle smooth. Vertebrae 26. 
Body covered with minute, cycloid scales, separate anteriorly, irregularly 
arranged. Head and nape naked. Dorsal with 6 spines and 29 rays. Anal 
similar to s econd dorsal, with 27 rays. Caudal emarginate. Pectoral short, 
rounded, rays about 22. Ventral with spine and 4 rays, longer than pectoral. 
Long slender eleotrids, with uniform coloration, minute scales, 
numerous rays in the soft dorsal and anal and the ventral with only 4 
branched rays. 
