As for genus except as noted. Mouth oblique with anterior tip of lower jaw ventral to a horizontal with ventral margin of eye; maxilla terminating posteroventral to eye.

Meristics.--Dorsal fin VI-I, 15; anal fin 1, 15; caudal vertebrae I7; pectoral fin with 17-20 rays.

Scale rows in longitudinal series about 160. Two or three rows of teeth in each jaw.