| Referencia principal | Williams, J.T., 1988 |
| El aspecto se refiere a | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| órganos especializados | |
| diverso aspecto | |
| diversos colores | different colors in mature adults only |
| Observaciones | Female head and body grey to yellowish brown with red spots, with pale diagonal stripe from upper lip to nape, across orbit; pectoral fins brown. Male unspotted, bicolored yellow anteriorly and reddish brown posteriorly; pectoral fins yellow (Ref. 529). |
| Características llamativas | |
| Forma lateral del cuerpo (shape guide) | fusiform / normal |
| Sección transversal | oval |
| Perfil dorsal de la cabeza | more or less straight |
| Tipo de ojos | more or less normal |
| Tipo de boca/hocico | more or less normal |
| Posición de la boca | terminal |
| Type of scales | |
| Diagnosis |
Diagnosis: Dorsal fin XII, 14, membrane attached to caudal fin, entire, first spine more or less the same height as second; anal fin II, 15; pectoral rays 15; pelvic fin I, 3; caudal fin procurrent rays 10-12. Vertebrae 10 + 20. LL, without scales and scalelike flaps; LL tubes 0-3, canal ends below dorsal ray 5-11. Lower lip smooth mesially, plicate laterally. Upper lip crenulae 36-48. Gill rakers 23-28. Cephalic sensory pore system simple. Midsnout pores present. Cirri, supraorbital 6-23, nasal 5-25; nuchal cirri 30 to 46, divided into 3-4 groups, 3-group resulting from fusion of bases of dorsalmost groups at apex of nape, 4-group condition has dorsalmost groups meeting or overlapping. Body depth at anal-fin origin 3.2-3.5 in SL. Pectoral with 5 ventralmost rays red-tipped; iris with yellow-colored oval, oriented almost vertically, centered around pupil, rest of iris silvery white. Female head and body grey to yellowish brown with spots red becoming dark brown posteriorly; with pale diagonal stripe from upper lip to nape, across orbit; pectoral fins brown. Male unspotted, bicolored yellow anteriorly and reddish brown posteriorly; pectoral fins yellow (Ref. 529, 90102, 37816). |
| Facilidad de identificación |
| Líneas laterales | 1 interrumpido: No |
| Escalas en la línea lateral | |
| Escalas de la línea lateral con poros | |
| Escalas en las series laterales | |
| 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 | |
| en el miembro superior | |
| total | 23 - 28 |
| Vértebra | |
| preanal | 10 - 10 |
| total | 30 - 31 |
| Cualidades | extending over most of the back length |
| Número de las aletas | 1 |
| número de pínnulas | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| total de espinas | 11 - 12 |
| Total de rayos suaves | 14 - 15 |
| Aleta adiposa | absent |
| Cualidades | more or less truncate; more or less normal |
| Número de las aletas | 1 |
| total de espinas | 2 - 2 |
| Total de rayos suaves | 14 - 16 |
| Pectoral | Cualidades more or less normal |
| espinas 0 | |
| Rayos-suaves 14 - 16 | |
| Pélvicas | Cualidades more or less normal |
| posición thoracic before origin of D1 | |
| espinas 1 | |
| Rayos-suaves 3 - 3 |