Morphology Data of Macropodus spechti
Identification keys
Abnormalities
Main Ref. Freyhof, J. and F. Herder, 2002
Appearance refers to
Bones in OsteoBase

Sex attributes

Specialized organs
Different appearance
Different colors
Remarks Males have longer soft caudal, dorsal and anal-fin rays, and grow larger than females (Ref. 42924).

Descriptive characteristics of juvenile and adult

Striking features none
Body shape lateral short and / or deep
Cross section
Dorsal head profile
Type of eyes
Type of mouth/snout
Position of mouth
Type of scales
Diagnosis

Differs from its congeners by the following combination of characters: caudal fin forked; opercular spot pale or missing; body without dark bars or with 4-12 faint and inconspicuous dark bars on pale brown to dark greyish background in preserved and live specimens; top of head and predorsal body without dark spots or saddle-like blotches; posterior tip or margin of scales on head and body conspicuously darker than scales; distal part of first soft pelvic-fin ray red in life; spots and bars on dorsal and caudal-fin membranes black; posterior dorsal-fin membranes and caudal-fin membranes blue in life; filamentous caudal-fin rays with white or black posterior extremity (Ref. 42924).

Ease of Identification

Meristic characteristics of Macropodus spechti

Lateral Lines Interrupted: No
Scales on lateral line 28 - 31
Pored lateral line scales
Scales in lateral series
Scale rows above lateral line
Scale rows below lateral line
Scales around caudal peduncle 17 - 19
Barbels
Gill clefts (sharks/rays only)
Gill rakers
on lower limb
on upper limb
total 15 - 17
Vertebrae
preanal
total 28 - 30

Fins

Dorsal fin(s)

Attributes
Fins number 1
Finlets No. Dorsal   0 - 0
Ventral  0 - 0
Spines total 11 - 15
Soft-rays total 4 - 9
Adipose fin absent

Caudal fin

Attributes forked

Anal fin(s)

Fins number
Spines total 17
Soft-rays total 11 - 14

Paired fins

Pectoral Attributes  more or less normal
Spines     
Soft-rays   9 - 12
Pelvics Attributes  rays very elongated
Position    thoracic  before origin of D1
Spines     
Soft-rays   
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