Morphology Summary - Schindleria squirei
Morphology Data of Schindleria squirei
Identification keys
Abnormalities
Main Ref. Robitzch, V., M.F. Landaeta and H. Ahnelt, 2023
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) elongated
Cross section oval
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: body slender, elongated and unpigmented in preserved specimen; a species of the long dorsal fin species group with predorsal-fin length 60.2% in SL and preanal-fin length 70.4% in SL; tail distinctly shorter than abdomen, 29.8% of SL; head massive, 48.7% width in head length, with a conmassive, 48.7% width in head length, with a convex dorsal profile; a relatively narrow pectoral-radial plate, 52.4% width of pectoral-radial plate length; 20-21 dorsal-fin rays; 12 anal-fin rays; first anal-fin ray situated opposite the dorsal-fin ray 9-10; teeth on both jaws tiny, conical, densely set; largest specimen 20.9 mm SL (Ref. 130793).

Ease of Identification

Meristic characteristics of Schindleria squirei

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 36 - 37

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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