Carapace with granules anteriorly, posterior area striated, and few, if any, setae. Chelipeds large and flat; carpus about twice as long as wide, with small rough granules, a median longitudinal crest and a serrate outer margin ending in a tooth distally. Large tuft of dense pubescence at base of finger. Walking legs with fine plumose and non-plumose setae scattered on surface in tufts. Male with a pair of gonopods on 2nd abdominal segment. Female with uniramous paired pleopods on segments 4 and 5.
SizeCarapace: male 19 x 19 mm, female 19 x 19 mm.
ColourGranules on carapace red-brown or white (giving a pebbled appearance) with blue tinges in the grooves and a blue and white “comma” on either side of cardiac region. Chelipeds with dark and light red granules with orange areas and blue-white patches at junctions of segments. Walking legs mahogany brown with 2 patches of yellow on merus, none on carpus, and a red and a yellow band proximally and a yellow distally on propodus with red, brown and yellow on dactyl and a dark brown claw. Abdomen red-brown and blue. Antennal flagellum greyish green. Outer maxillipeds red, brown and blue, with both surfaces of last 2 articles bright blue.