Description.—Adolescent females with body
somewhat elongate, adult females relatively
short, more or less globular; mouth small,
oblique, cleft terminating well before eye; illicium
short, length 11.6–12.6% SL in smallest
known specimens (8.8–18.3 mm), 11.5–20.8%
SL in larger specimens (52–132 mm; see Table
1); distal half of escal bulb internally pigmented,
with a heavily pigmented lateral patch on
each side; basal half of escal bulb without internal
pigment; external surface of escal bulb without
pigment; an unpigmented wedge of tissue
arising from posteromedial margin of escal bulb
(flanked on each side by a membranous serrateedged
flap of tissue in 96-mm specimen); an escal
pore situated on posteromedial margin of
escal bulb, dorsal to posterior wedge of tissue
and just behind base of distal escal appendage;
a single, internally pigmented, distal escal appendage,
with a silvery distal tip, approximately
as long as escal bulb to nearly 60% SL (Figs. 1–
3); one or two stout, nontapering, internally