Morphological description (GBIF)(Mô tả hình thái (GBIF))
Diagnosis. A species of Johnius with the following combination of characters: snout steep, obtusely rounded, slightly projecting in front of upper jaw; mouth small, inferior; lower jaw with a band of villiform teeth; gill rakers very short, club-shaped, less than 1 / 2 length of gill filaments at angle of arch, 8 to 10 on lower limb of first gill arch; second spine long, stiff, 31 to 45 % of head length; and scales moderately small, 7 to 11 scale rows above lateral line to origin of dorsal fin, 12 to 17 scale rows below lateral line to origin of anal fin (Hanafi et al., 2023).
