| Main Ref. | Aquino, A.E. and S.A. Schaefer, 2010 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | |
| Different colors | |
| Remarks | Male urogenital papilla is completely covered by flaplike anus, joined at base; with patch of tightly arranged small odontodes oriented as a swirl covering second, third, and fourth plates of ventral series, lateral to urogenital papilla; with soft-tissue flap along posterior margin of pelvic spine variably developed, when present it is short, restricted to basal onethird to one-half of spine. Female anus tubular, without separate urogenital papilla; size and arrangement of odontodes on plates lateral to anus similar to adjacent plates, without distinct patch of differentially arranged odontodes; pelvic spine without flap of soft tissue on posterior surface (Ref. 84367). |
| Striking features | |
| Body shape lateral | 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 all congeners except H. muzuspi by having preopercle constricted medially (vs. no constriction); canal in preopercle present, semicircular, located posterior to the preopercle constriction (vs. canal absent from preopercle). It differs from H. muzuspi by its wider body, cleithral width 23.7-27.0 (25.7) (vs. 19.1-23.5 (22.2)), a deeper caudal peduncle, caudal-peduncle depth 6.4-9.1 (7.7) (vs. 5.2-6.7 (5.8)), and a larger eye, horizontal eye diameter 19.8-23.3 (21.7) (vs. 13.6-20.7 (18.4)) (Ref. 84367). |
| 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 | |
| total | 27 - 27 |
| Attributes | |
| Fins number | |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | |
| Adipose fin |
| Attributes |
| Fins number | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total |
| Pectoral | Attributes |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays | |
| Pelvics | Attributes |
| Position | |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays |