Mantle length less than 10 cm, weight less than 200 g; body with small, pointed papillae [but not the skin folds]; hectocotylus is small, about 1/10 the length of the male's 3rd right arm; with 11-13 lamellae on the outer demibranch of each gill; eggs 3-4 mm long;planktonic larva with a double row of chromatophores on each arm