Carapace relatively flat with soft capitate setae and elongate clavate setae and stiff bristles on tips of spines. Rostrum narrow, pointed, and longer than orbital. Antero-lateral teeth straight and slender and much longer than orbital. Margin of carapace behind cervical groove cut into long slender teeth decreasing in size posteriorly. Antennal base spiny. Eyestalk long and slender. Inner margin of last 2 segments of 3rd maxilliped distinctly inflated. Right cheliped like that of H. grebnitzkii but usually has 4 longitudinal rows of spines on palm. Dactyl about ¾ length of palm. Walking legs also similar but marginal teeth longer and more slender and with stiff setae near tips of spines. Abdomen with narrow plates on 2nd segment.
SizeCarapace: male 25 x 25 mm, female 22 x 24 mm.
ColourCarapace brown and red, with a few white spots, and covered with pale yellowish tan or dark brown setae and bristles. Tips of fingers of chelipeds orange and teeth white; other surfaces like the carapace. Walking legs with a dark red band and 2 white band on the propodus. Dactyl red-brown and pale brown with black claw. Sternum red. Eyestalk pale brown; cornea black with orange flecks. Flagellum of antenna banded with wide brown sections and narrow translucent ones.