Morphology Summary - Ophichthus woosuitingi
Morphology Data of Ophichthus woosuitingi
Identification keys
Abnormalities
Main Ref. Vo, Q.V., Y. Hibino, H.-C. Ho, T.T.T. Le and Y.G. Seah, 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) eel-like
Cross section
Dorsal head profile
Type of eyes
Type of mouth/snout
Position of mouth
Type of scales
Diagnosis

According to Chen (1929), the species has the following morphological features (viewed to be similar to O. macrochir, Ref. 133101): strongly wrinkled body; head 6.0% TL; body depth

1.4% TL (70.8 in TL); eye 6.2% HL; snout 18.7% HL; pectoral-fin length ~ 20% HL; dorsal-fin origin slightly behind the tip of pectoral fin; SO ?1 (ethmoid not obvious) + 4, POM 5 + 2; preanal lateral-line pores 68; teeth on maxilla mostly uniserial, on mandible is biserial; teeth on vomer bi- or triserial. Colouration: body color uniformly blackish (Ref. 133101).

Ease of Identification

Meristic characteristics of Ophichthus woosuitingi

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)
Back to Search
Comments & Corrections
cfm script by eagbayani, 17.10.00, php script by rolavides, 13/03/08 ,  last modified by sortiz, 06.27.17