A largest species among isopod crustaceans, being one of six representatives of Bathynomus. Body spindle-shaped as a whole, its dorsal surface with minute dense depressions; cephalic segment with a short, linear transverse furrow at each posterolateral part; Clypeus triangular and protruded forward beyond anterior margin of cephalic segment in dorsal view; lateral pleura of seventh thoracic segment small, but those of first to sixth segments becoming sharper posteriorly. Telson plate-like, with a longitudinal median ridge, having 13 marginal spines; of them proximal one of each side very often nearly obsolete; endopod of uropod with 12 movable spines on its distal margin and four or five on outer margin, and exopod with four or five on distal margin and ten on outer margin. Each pereiopod with hooked dactylus and dark-colored spinules, each dactylus forming an imperfect chela together with curved propodus in first three pairs.
Distribution:
West Atlantic from the Straits of Florida through the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to off mouth of the Amazon River, and also known from the northern Indian Ocean, 310-2,140 m deep.