Morphology Summary - Cirrhimuraena taiwanensis
Morphology Data of Cirrhimuraena taiwanensis
Identification keys
Abnormalities
Main Ref. Lin, Y.-T., Y.-H. Lin and Y.-S. Han, 2025
Appearance refers to
Bones in OsteoBase

Sex attributes

Specialized organs
Different appearance
Different colors
Remarks

Descriptive characteristics of juvenile and adult

Striking features
Body shape lateral  (shape guide)
Cross section circular
Dorsal head profile
Type of eyes
Type of mouth/snout
Position of mouth
Type of scales
Diagnosis

This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: small pectoral fin, 15.2% of head length (HL); HK 9.7% of TL dorsal fin originates 1½ pectoral-fin length behind gill opening; unique tooth pattern, with only a single row of mandibular teeth; cirri on upper jaw 11; vertebrae 150, vertebral formula 13-53-150 (Ref. 133034).

Ease of Identification

Meristic characteristics of Cirrhimuraena taiwanensis

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 53 - 53
total 150 - 150

Fins

Dorsal fin(s)

Attributes
Fins number
Finlets No. Dorsal   
Ventral  
Spines total
Soft-rays total
Adipose fin

Caudal fin  (shape guide)

Attributes

Anal fin(s)

Fins number
Spines total
Soft-rays total

Paired fins

Pectoral Attributes  
Spines     
Soft-rays   
Pelvics Attributes  
Position    
Spines     
Soft-rays   
(e.g. 9948)
(e.g. oophagy)
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