Colour in alcohol Base dorsal colour dark brown, but with faint blue colouration laterally on carapace and posterior margin of abdominal somites. Definite suggestions of blue distal colouration on all primary teeth of telson and on movable spines of exopod proximal segment. Uropod with black band across proximal segment of exopod, adjacent to protopod and endopod. Colour in life Overall colour is a mottled light brown on white-cream, with darker brown mid-dorsal surface of TS 6 – 7 white with tan-brown mottling dorsally. Uropod with black band across proximal segment of exopod, adjacent protopod and endopod; exopod distal segment and A 2 scale pink (Ahyong 2001). Measurements Male (n = 1) TL 52 mm. Uropodal exopod distal segment length 1.05 times proximal segment length. The largest known specimen at TL 77 mm reported from Western Australia (Ahyong 2001).
Sumber: New and notable stomatopods (Crustacea, Stomatopoda) from Mozambique