Referencia principal | Heemstra, P.C. and J.E. Randall, 1999 |
El aspecto se refiere a | |
Bones in OsteoBase |
órganos especializados | |
diverso aspecto | |
diversos colores | |
Observaciones |
Características llamativas | none |
Forma lateral del cuerpo | short and / or deep |
Sección transversal | compressed |
Perfil dorsal de la cabeza | clearly convex |
Tipo de ojos | more or less normal |
Tipo de boca/hocico | more or less normal |
Posición de la boca | superior |
Type of scales | ctenoid scales |
Diagnosis |
This species is distinguished by the following characters: body depth less than head length, 2.7-3.3 in SL (for specimens 14-31 cm SL); head length 2.4-2.8 in SL; D XI,15-17; pectoral rays 17-19 (usually 17-18); body scales ctenoid, cycloid scales on thorax and ventrally on abdomen; body with auxiliary scales; anal fin of adults rounded to slightly angular, longest soft ray 2.0-2.6 in HL; gill rakers of first gill arch 8-10 + 14-16; pyloric caeca 11-17; preopercle with 2-7 enlarged serrae at the angle; upper edge of operculum straight or slightly convex; midlateral part of lower jaw with 2 rows of teeth; lateral-line scales 49-53; caudal fin slightly convex in juveniles, truncate or slightly emarginate in adults. Colour of head, body, and fins pale, covered with numerous close-set brown, brownish yellow or greenish yellow spots (becoming smaller and increase in number as growth increases), the largest about size of pupil, those on front of head smaller than those on operculum; pectoral fins pale, with small dark spots on the rays; posterior edge of caudal fin with a distinct white margin (Ref. 39231, 90102). |
Facilidad de identificación |
Líneas laterales | 1 interrumpido: No |
Escalas en la línea lateral | 49 - 53 |
Escalas de la línea lateral con poros | |
Escalas en las series laterales | 97 - 116 |
Filas de escalas sobre la línea lateral | |
Filas de escalas debajo de la línea lateral | |
Escalas alrededor del peduncule caudal | |
Barbillas | 0 |
Hendiduras branquiales (solamente tiburones/rayas) | |
Branquispinas | |
en el miembro inferior | 14 - 16 |
en el miembro superior | 8 - 10 |
total | 23 - 25 |
Vértebra | |
preanal | |
total |
Cualidades | no striking attributes |
Número de las aletas | 1 |
número de pínnulas | Dorsal 0 - 0 |
Ventral 0 - 0 | |
total de espinas | 11 - 11 |
Total de rayos suaves | 15 - 17 |
Aleta adiposa | absent |
Cualidades | more or less truncate; more or less normal |
Número de las aletas | 1 |
total de espinas | 3 - 3 |
Total de rayos suaves | 8 - 8 |
Pectoral | Cualidades more or less normal |
espinas 0 | |
Rayos-suaves 17 - 19 | |
Pélvicas | Cualidades more or less normal |
posición thoracic beneath origin of D1 | |
espinas | |
Rayos-suaves |