Body moderately compressed, elongate. Caudal peduncle rather 
deep. Head wide, moderately long, depressed. Snout short, wide. Eyes 
small, directed upwards, well separated, anterior in head. Mouth large, 
superiorly terminal, lower jaw protruding. Lips rather broad and fleshy. 
Tongue convex in front. Gill rakers few, short, feeble points. Head with 
papillate ridges on snout, cheek, mandible and preopercle. Gill opening 
restricted, short vertical slit entirely before pectoral base. Branchios- 
tegals 6. Scales very small, cycloid, more or less imbedded. Two dorsals, 
spinous fin less than half of second fin, spines soft and flexible. Anal 
opposite long second dorsal, little smaller. Caudal rounded. Pectoral 
large, rounded. Ventrals small, well separated, inserted opposite pectoral 
bases. 
Apparently unique in the combination of its characters, this 
genus not approaching any of the known forms closely. The head, unarmed 
or without spines, allies it with most of the known genera. 
