Main Ref. | Chakraborty, A., M.J.P. van Oijen, K.K.P. Lim and Y. Iwatsuki, 2006 |
Appearance refers to | |
Bones in OsteoBase |
Specialized organs | |
Different appearance | |
Different colors | |
Remarks |
Striking features | |
Body shape lateral | elongated |
Cross section | |
Dorsal head profile | |
Type of eyes | |
Type of mouth/snout | |
Position of mouth | |
Type of scales | |
Diagnosis |
Redescribed and found different from its congeners by the following characters: gold sheen or yellowish silver color when fresh (vs. steel-blue with metallic sheen); posterior margin of maxilla reaching or extending beyond a vertical through hind eye margin (vs. not extending); pectoral fin slightly longer than snout (vs. slightly shorter than snout); tip of pectoral fin clearly extending beyond dorsal outline when vertically orientated (vs. not reaching dorsal outline); gill rakers absent or reduced to stiff ossified structures (vs. well developed, spinelike); first anal fin spine situated below the 40th-43rd dorsal fin ray (vs. below 35th-39th in L. pantului and 35th-40th in L. savala; precaudal vertebrae 42-43 (vs. 35-39 in pantului and 36-40 in savala); larger sizes attained 882-1200 mm TL (vs. less than 800 mm TL) (Ref. 58329). |
Ease of Identification |
Lateral Lines | Interrupted: No |
Scales on lateral line | |
Pored lateral line scales | |
Scales in lateral series | |
Scale rows above lateral line | |
Scale rows below lateral line | |
Scales around caudal peduncle | |
Barbels | |
Gill clefts (sharks/rays only) | |
Gill rakers | |
on lower limb | |
on upper limb | |
total | |
Vertebrae | |
preanal | |
total |
Attributes | |
Fins number | |
Finlets No. | Dorsal |
Ventral | |
Spines total | |
Soft-rays total | |
Adipose fin |
Attributes |
Fins number | |
Spines total | |
Soft-rays total |
Pectoral | Attributes |
Spines | |
Soft-rays | |
Pelvics | Attributes |
Position | |
Spines | |
Soft-rays |