Body coloration dark greyish-brown with three pale whitish bars; a dark greyish-brown bar across caudal fin, a second one across each lobe, joined to the first one on the median rays; tip of caudal-fin lobes not produced into a filament; absence of supra-clavicular process; relatively large eyes (eye diameter 16.3-21.4 % of head length); relatively low adipose fin (adipose fin depth 4.2-6.9 %SL); hind margin of dorsal-fin spine almost smooth; relatively long maxillary barbels that extend past edge of opercle almost to beneath origin of dorsal fin (Ref. 36949). Body shallow, depth at dorsal fin origin equal to head width (Ref. 43281).