| Main Ref. | Campanario, C.M. and M.C.C. de Pinna, 2000 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | |
| Different colors | |
| Remarks |
| Striking features | |
| Body shape lateral | elongated |
| Cross section | oval |
| Dorsal head profile | clearly convex |
| Type of eyes | more or less normal |
| Type of mouth/snout | |
| Position of mouth | |
| Type of scales | |
| Diagnosis |
Body uniformly dark-brown. Interopercle with 3 rows of odontodes; posterior region of interopercle close to anterior margin of pectoral fin; interopercular patch of odontodes long (38-48% HL). Upper lip wide with margin of mouth distant from tip of snout. Adipose fin small, emerging gradually posterior to dorsal fin. Prepelvic (49-52% SL) and predorsal (50-55% SL) long. Head wide 94-103% HL). Orbital rim free. Eyes large, about 8 times in HL. Caudal fin bilobed. Maxillary and nasal barbels not reaching posterior margin of pectoral fin and rictal barbel not extending beyond half length of interopercle. Outer row premaxillary and dentary teeth overlapping distally; dentary teeth not extending to coronoid process of lower jaw; dentary teeth inclined relative to surface of dentary bone. Lower lip split in 2 bilateral halves by median constriction (Ref. 45131). |
| 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 |
| Attributes | |
| Fins number | |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 6 - 8 |
| Adipose fin |
| Attributes | more or less truncate; more or less normal |
| Fins number | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 9 - 9 |
| Pectoral | Attributes more or less normal |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 11 - 11 | |
| Pelvics | Attributes more or less normal |
| Position abdominal beneath origin of D1 | |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 6 - 6 |