Morphology Summary - Eustomias borealis

Sex attributes

Striking features	striking barbel(s)
Body shape lateral (shape guide)	elongated
Cross section
Dorsal head profile
Type of eyes
Type of mouth/snout
Position of mouth
Type of scales
Diagnosis	Barbel with three branches arising together from stem; barbel stem pigmented only up to origin of branches; distal stem pigmented only in axis and small internal spots; terminal bulb roughly spheroidal with short streaks of pigment on the dorsal surface roughly outlining numerous unpigmented ovoids visible internally; ovoids not protruding above bulb surface; a single pair of laterally based terminal filaments on the dorsal tip of bulb and two or three medial filaments ventral to them; the dorsal pair longer, usually thicker, and with more side filaments than the medial filaments.
Ease of Identification	likely to be confused with closely related species.

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