Diagnostic characters: distinguished from other pleuronectids without pigment bands by: pigment pattern: urostyle unpigmented; no slash-like pigment along hypaxial myomeres; finfold pigment mainly restricted to anal finfold; size at transformation about 10 mm SL.
Pigment: isthmus, posteroventrally on gut; initially, in preflexion larvae, dorsal spots over posterior half of body that become less prominent with development; ventral midline melanophores extend onto finfold and on caudal region; internal row above notochord throughout development.
Sequence of fin development: caudal, dorsal and anal, pelvics, pectorals. |