The Antitropical Shrimpgoby is cream to white with five deep red bars on the body. The first bar, which crosses the operculum, contains a red-brown spot. The second bar ends dorsally in a semicircular spot at the base of the first dorsal fin. There is a dusky bar between the eye and the mouth. The head has scattered blue and red spots. The caudal fin is marked with a deep reddish arc, and the pale spaces between the body bars contain blue spots.
This species grow to 11cm in length. It lives in a burrow with a snapping shrimp, often Alpheus bellulus .
The common name of the Antitropical Shrimpgoby refers to the distribution of the species. It is known from the Ryukyu and Ogasawara Islands in southern Japan and from the northern Great Barrier Reef, Queensland to northern New South Wales in Australia. It is not however recorded from the tropical waters in between.
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