It has a relatively short snout, which avareages 15.3% of its standard length and is shorter than the distance between the rearmost part of the orbit and the rear edge of the operculum.

It has poorly developed tentacles above the eyes and just a small number of tantacles on the body and fins.

[2] This is a brown fish with indistinct darker markings on the head and on the back at the base of each part of the dorsal fin.

[7] Pteroidichthys noronhai is found in the Indo-West Pacific and has been recorded from widely separated localities.

It is a demersal fish found at depths between 50 and 215 m (164 and 705 ft) in areas of sandy substrate.