Carapace bearing three movable spines mid- dorsally. Eye stalk elongate, subcylindrical, setose, reaching beyond end of antennular peduncle. Abdominal pleura with rounded margins. Telson as long as sixth abdominal segment, two pairs of spinules distally on dorsal surface, small triangular projection midway on lateral margins. First pereopods smaller than second, feeble, symmetrical, with chela shorter than carpus.
Second legs chelate, carpus four-segmented.
An annotated list of the decapod crustacea of the Mediterranean coast of Israel, with an appendix listing the decapoda of the eastern Mediterranean. Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel. The alpheid shrimp of Australia. The remaining alpheids, principally the genus Alpheus , and the family Ogyrididae.