| Main Ref. | Román-Valencia, C., R.I. Ruiz-C., D.C. Taphorn, P. Jiménez-Prado and C.A. García-Alzate, 2015 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | always different morphology between mature adults |
| Different colors | always different colors between mature adults |
| Remarks | Sexually mature males with hooks on branched rays on anal, pelvic, pectoral, dorsal and caudal fins. Males possess more prominent, darker lateral stripes, deeper and wider caudal peduncles, and thicker caudal-fin rays than females; darker colors, related to higher concentration of melanophores along posterior margins of scales that are strongly concentrated along the lateral stripe and also along the infraorbitals, opercle and lateral surface of the cranium (vs. lighter pigmentation pattern, with only the humeral and peduncular regions pigmented in females). |
| Striking features | |
| Body shape lateral | fusiform / normal |
| Cross section | |
| Dorsal head profile | |
| Type of eyes | |
| Type of mouth/snout | |
| Position of mouth | terminal |
| Type of scales | |
| Diagnosis |
Description: Dorsal-fin rays iii, 9; anal-fin rays vi, 25-29; pectoral-fin rays i, 10-12, i; pelvic-fin rays i,7 (Ref. 104976). |
| Ease of Identification |
| Lateral Lines | Interrupted: No |
| Scales on lateral line | 36 - 40 |
| Pored lateral line scales | 36 - 40 |
| Scales in lateral series | |
| Scale rows above lateral line | 5 - 7 |
| Scale rows below lateral line | 5 - 8 |
| Scales around caudal peduncle | |
| Barbels | |
| Gill clefts (sharks/rays only) | |
| Gill rakers | |
| on lower limb | |
| on upper limb | |
| total | |
| Vertebrae | |
| preanal | |
| total | 36 - 37 |
| Attributes | no striking attributes |
| Fins number | 1 |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 12 - 12 |
| Adipose fin | present |
| Attributes | forked |
| Fins number | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 31 - 35 |
| Pectoral | Attributes more or less normal |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 12 - 14 | |
| Pelvics | Attributes more or less normal |
| Position abdominal before origin of D1 | |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 8 - 8 |