Morphology Data of Pycnocraspedum squamipinne
Identification keys
Abnormalities
Main Ref. Teena, J.T.K., A. Murugan, A.T.T. Kumar and K.K. Lal, 2021
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 elongated
Cross section compressed
Dorsal head profile
Type of eyes
Type of mouth/snout
Position of mouth
Type of scales
Diagnosis

A deep bodied cusk eel distinguished by the following characters: head 3.0-3.9 times in SL; eye diameter 5.5-6.8 in HL; interorbital 4.8-6.3 in HL; snout 3.8-5.2 in HL; depth 4.3-6.8 in SL; predorsal length 3.3-4.7 in SL, with distance between pelvic origin to anal origin 2.5-4.4 in SL; absence of pseudobranchiae; pyloric caeca 12-13; median basibranchial tooth patches 2; one opercular spine and 3 short blunt spines at the lower angle of preopercle; differs from its congeners in origin of dorsal fin which is above preopercle, no pseudobranchial filaments, pectoral fins and pelvic fins are short and not reaching anus (Ref. 124036)

Ease of Identification

Meristic characteristics of Pycnocraspedum squamipinne

Lateral Lines Interrupted: No
Scales on lateral line
Pored lateral line scales
Scales in lateral series
Scale rows above lateral line 10 - 24
Scale rows below lateral line
Scales around caudal peduncle
Barbels
Gill clefts (sharks/rays only)
Gill rakers
on lower limb
on upper limb
total 4 - 4
Vertebrae
preanal
total 47 - 49

Fins

Dorsal fin(s)

Attributes
Fins number 1
Finlets No. Dorsal   0 - 0
Ventral  0 - 0
Spines total
Soft-rays total 63 - 92
Adipose fin absent

Caudal fin

Attributes pointed; more or less normal

Anal fin(s)

Fins number
Spines total
Soft-rays total 54 - 79

Paired fins

Pectoral Attributes  more or less normal
Spines     
Soft-rays   24 - 24
Pelvics Attributes  reduced to filaments
Position    jugular  before origin of D1
Spines     
Soft-rays   2 - 2
Main Ref. (e.g. 9948)
Glossary ( e.g. cephalopods )
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