Morphology Summary - Ophichthus suryai
Morphology Data of Ophichthus suryai
Identification keys
Abnormalities
Main Ref. Behera, R.K., S. Acharya, S.S. Mishra and A. Mohapatra, 2024
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)
Cross section circular
Dorsal head profile
Type of eyes
Type of mouth/snout
Position of mouth
Type of scales
Diagnosis

This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: origin of the dorsal fin (DFO) just above or slightly anterior to the gill opening; pectoral fin is small, rounded, and white in color, with no dark blotch on the anterior lobe of the dorsal fin; teeth are small and numerous, uniserial at the beginning of maxillary with triserial ending, mandibular teeth biserial anteriorly and triserial posteriorly; presence of single lip barbel; mean vertebral formula (MVF) is 7.5/46/144.6 (Ref. 133138).

Ease of Identification

Meristic characteristics of Ophichthus suryai

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 46 - 47
total 142 - 148

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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