| Main Ref. | Nebeshwar, K., Y. Rameshori and S. Prabina, 2024 |
| 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: a transverse lobe with 13-35 small- to medium sized conical tubercles; a prominent, unilobed, hexagon-shaped proboscis with five large-sized conical acanthoid tubercles on anterior margin and three or four medium-sized conical acanthoid tubercles on anteroventral marginal aspect; lateral surface of snout swollen with 8-18 small tubercles; depressed rostral surface of snout flat and creased; 28-29 + 3 = 31-32 lateral-line scales; 8½ branched dorsal-fin rays; 5½ branched anal-fin rays; lack of labella (Ref. 132498). |
| Ease of Identification |
| Lateral Lines | Interrupted: No |
| Scales on lateral line | 31 - 32 |
| 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 | 21 - 21 |
| total | 32 - 32 |
| Attributes | |
| Fins number | 1 |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 11 - 11 |
| Adipose fin | absent |
| Attributes |
| Fins number | 1 |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 8 - 8 |
| Pectoral | Attributes |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 12 - 13 | |
| Pelvics | Attributes |
| Position | |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 9 - 9 |