Body elongately ellipsoid, moderately compressed, especially 
posteriorly. Caudal peduncle rather deep. Head large, depressed, upper 
profile depressed over eye. Snout broad, depressed, convex in profile 
depressed over eye. Snout broad, depressed, convex in profile. Eye 
small, high, advanced before first third in head, with free lids. Mouth 
rather large, terminally superior. Lips rather narrow, fleshy. Mandible 
well protruded, broad, shallow. Teeth in jaws in bands, conic, larger 
and smaller intermixed. Tongue broad, spatulate, edge convex in front. 
Nostrils small, similar, close together, close before eye. Interorbital 
low, depressed to level. Gill rakers short, low, broad, rather small. 
Scales small, crowded and cycloid anteriorly on body, little larger and 
ctenoid posteriorly. Head, except muzzle and under surfaces largely 
scaly, scales little larger on opercles. Cheek and infraorbital region 
with many vertical parallel series of close-set papillae, many radiating 
from lower eye edge, as short variable bars. Caudal and paired fins 
finely scaled basally, other fins naked. Two dorsals, spines flexible 
terminally and rayed fin larger. Anal opposite soft dorsal and smaller. 
Caudal rather large. Pectoral moderate. Ventral small. 
Differs from Eleotris in its different physiognomy and the absence 
of a preopercular spine. It has much the appearance of Gigantogobius, 
but with larger scales and different coloration. 
