Referencia principal | Teugels, G.G., 1986 |
El aspecto se refiere a | |
Bones in OsteoBase |
órganos especializados | no special organs |
diverso aspecto | males alike females |
diversos colores | males alike females |
Observaciones |
Características llamativas | none |
Forma lateral del cuerpo | elongated |
Sección transversal | oval |
Perfil dorsal de la cabeza | more or less straight |
Tipo de ojos | more or less normal |
Tipo de boca/hocico | more or less normal |
Posición de la boca | sub-terminal/inferior |
Type of scales | scales embedded or partly/completely absent |
Diagnosis |
Diagnosis: head relatively long (Ref. 248, 57129) and flattened, its length 24.8-28.6% SL (mean 26.2)(Ref. 57129, 81644). Frontal fontanel short and wide (Ref. 57129, 81644), "sole-shaped" (Ref. 248), 1.5 times as long as wide (Ref. 81644). Lateral cephalic bones (dermosphenotic and supraorbital) becoming contiguous already in young individuals (between 70 and 80 mm SL)(Ref. 248, 57129, 81644). First gill arch with 11-19 gill rakers (Ref. 57129, 81644). Color pattern usually uniform, occasionally a marbled pattern consisting of various dark brown spots on a light-brown background; head broad and pointed in dorsal outline; tooth plates broad; suprabranchial organ well developed although not completely filling the chamber (Ref. 248). Vomerine tooth band a little less short than premaxillary tooth band; pectoral spine serrate only along anterior margin; flank neuromasts arranged in a regular pattern (Ref. 81644). Coloration: no information on colour in life (Ref. 57129, 81644). Most preserved specimens uniformly coloured: back and sides light to dark brown, belly beige-white; some specimens have a marbled pattern, with numerous black spots against a lighter background on back and sides, while the belly is beige to yellowish (Ref. 57129, 81644). |
Facilidad de identificación |
Líneas laterales | 1 interrumpido: No |
Escalas en la línea lateral | |
Escalas de la línea lateral con poros | |
Escalas en las series laterales | |
Filas de escalas sobre la línea lateral | |
Filas de escalas debajo de la línea lateral | |
Escalas alrededor del peduncule caudal | |
Barbillas | 8 |
Hendiduras branquiales (solamente tiburones/rayas) | absent |
Branquispinas | |
en el miembro inferior | |
en el miembro superior | |
total | 11 - 19 |
Vértebra | |
preanal | |
total | 58 - 65 |
Cualidades | extending over most of the back length |
Número de las aletas | 1 |
número de pínnulas | Dorsal 0 |
Ventral 0 | |
total de espinas | 0 - 0 |
Total de rayos suaves | 70 - 86 |
Aleta adiposa | absent |
Cualidades | more or less truncate; more or less normal |
Número de las aletas | 1 |
total de espinas | |
Total de rayos suaves | 54 - 71 |
Pectoral | Cualidades more or less normal |
espinas 1 | |
Rayos-suaves 8 - 10 | |
Pélvicas | Cualidades more or less normal |
posición abdominal behind origin of D1 | |
espinas | |
Rayos-suaves 6 |