| Main Ref. | Fricke, R., D. Golani and B. Appelbaum-Golani, 2023 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | |
| Different colors | |
| Remarks |
| 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 |
| 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 |