Morphology Summary - Cynoglossus glotta
Morphology Data of Cynoglossus glotta
Identification keys
Abnormalities
Main Ref. Fricke, R., D. Golani and B. Appelbaum-Golani, 2023
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) elongated
Cross section compressed
Dorsal head profile
Type of eyes
Type of mouth/snout
Position of mouth
Type of scales
Diagnosis

This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: snout relatively short, rounded; head length 21-22% of SL, snout length 6.7-7.4% of SL; ocular side with two nostrils; opercle slightly bilobed; eyes close together but not contiguous; corner of mouth distinctly nearer to tip of snout than to posterior edge of opercle; ocular side with 2 lateral lines, lateral-line scales 105-106, scale rows between midlateral and dorsolateral lines 16-18, blind side with one lateral line; ctenoid scales on both ocular and blind sides; dorsal-fin-rays 109; anal-fin rays 75-78; caudal-fin rays 10; vertebrae 9 + 49; and gill chamber and peritoneum pale (Ref. 138752).

Ease of Identification

Meristic characteristics of Cynoglossus glotta

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

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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