Body is short, compressed with rounded with abdomen. Head is small, compressed. Snout obtusely rounded. Mouth subterminal and moderately wide. Eyes large, inferior. Jaws subequal. Lips thin and teeth on jaws and palate in broad villiform bands. Four pairs of barbels; one each of maxillary, nasal and two of mandibular, all slender, shorter than head, may be coloured. Caudal fin forked, lobes equal. Lateral line complete. Colouration: Yellowish body speckled with dark to light brown spots. Broad dark brown lateral line with two other thiner lines above and below. All fins hyaline with dark first hard rays.