| Main Ref. | Henschel, E., J.N. Baskin and N.K. Lujan, 2026 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | |
| Different colors | |
| Remarks |
| Striking features | |
| 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 |
This species is distinguished from its congeners by the following set of characters: conspicuous median process on parietosupraoccipital; nine teeth on median premaxilla; s6 pore paired; opercular odontodes 6 or 7; interopercular odontodes 7; bilobed caudal-fin; maxillary barbel reaching 50% of eye length; absence of epibranchial 4; posterior process of parurohyal, reaching 10% of anterior ceratohyal length; absence of irregular dark spots on dorsum; opercular odontodes 6 or 7; vertebrae 36; dorsal procurrent caudal-fin rays 12; and ventral procurrent caudal-fin rays 13 (Ref. 138907). |
| 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 | 1 - 1 |
| total | 37 - 37 |
| Attributes | |
| Fins number | |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | 1 - 1 |
| Soft-rays total | 8 - 8 |
| Adipose fin |
| Attributes |
| Fins number | |
| Spines total | 2 - 2 |
| Soft-rays total | 6 - 6 |
| Pectoral | Attributes |
| Spines 1 | |
| Soft-rays 5 - 5 | |
| Pelvics | Attributes |
| Position | |
| Spines 1 | |
| Soft-rays 4 - 4 |