| Main Ref. | Kamangar, B.B., A.M. Prokofiev, E. Ghaderi and T.T. Nalbant, 2014 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | |
| Different colors | |
| Remarks | Males with minute breeding tubercles distributed on snout, opercle and occipital region of head, branchiostegal membranes, isthmus, breast, both sides of body wall in front of dorsal fin, and on paired fins. Length of paired fins not significantly different between sexes, but paired fins more broadly rounded in males than in females (Ref. 94765). |
| 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 |
Dorsal fin usually with 8 branched rays; complete lateral-line; feebly developed adipose crests on the caudal peduncle; bony air-bladder capsule having moderately small and laterally directed posterior processes; a robust, deep and humped body; and a reticulated color pattern confluent to the wavy transverse bands, most distinctively developed posteriorly (Ref. 94765). |
| 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 | 32 - 34 |
| Attributes | no striking attributes |
| Fins number | 1 |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 10 - 11 |
| Adipose fin | absent |
| Attributes | more or less truncate |
| Fins number | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 7 - 9 |
| Pectoral | Attributes more or less normal |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 11 - 12 | |
| Pelvics | Attributes more or less normal |
| Position abdominal behind origin of D1 | |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 7 - 8 |