| Referencia principal | Shireman, J.V. and C.R. Smith, 1983 |
| El aspecto se refiere a | macho; hembra |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| órganos especializados | no special organs |
| diverso aspecto | different morphology during breeding season only |
| diversos colores | males alike females |
| Observaciones |
| Características llamativas | none |
| Forma lateral del cuerpo | fusiform / normal |
| Sección transversal | |
| Perfil dorsal de la cabeza | clearly concave |
| Tipo de ojos | more or less normal |
| Tipo de boca/hocico | more or less normal |
| Posición de la boca | sub-terminal/inferior |
| Type of scales | cycloid scales |
| Diagnosis |
Diagnosis: No barbels; snout very short, its length less than or equal to eye diameter; postorbital length more than half head length (Ref. 4967). 18 soft rays for caudal fin (Ref. 40476). Diagnosed from rather similar species Mylopharyngodon piceus by having the following characters: body olive to brassy green above, silvery white to yellow below; body cylindrical; pharyngeal teeth laterally compressed, serrated, with a groove along grinding surface, usually in two rows, 2,5-4,2 (Ref. 59043). Description: Body sub-cylindrical (Ref. 52193). Head pointed; mouth terminal; eyes nearer tip of snout than hind margin of head, lateral in position (Ref. 52193). Dorsal fin with 3 unbranched and 7-8 branched rays; anal fin with 3 unbranched and 8 branched rays; dorsal fin short, midway between tip of snout and end of caudal peduncle, origin slightly in front of pelvic fins (Ref. 52193). Scales in lateral line 37-42; 16 scales around caudal peduncle (Ref. 52193). Colouration: Body silvery, head and fins dark grey (Ref. 52193). |
| Facilidad de identificación |
| Líneas laterales | 1 interrumpido: No |
| Escalas en la línea lateral | 37 - 45 |
| 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) | absent |
| Branquispinas | |
| en el miembro inferior | |
| en el miembro superior | |
| total | 12 - 12 |
| Vértebra | |
| preanal | |
| total |
| Cualidades | no striking attributes |
| Número de las aletas | 1 |
| número de pínnulas | Dorsal 0 - 0 |
| Ventral 0 - 0 | |
| total de espinas | 0 - 0 |
| Total de rayos suaves | 10 - 11 |
| Aleta adiposa | absent |
| Cualidades | forked; more or less normal |
| Número de las aletas | 1 |
| total de espinas | 0 - 0 |
| Total de rayos suaves | 10 - 14 |
| Pectoral | Cualidades more or less normal |
| espinas 1 | |
| Rayos-suaves 15 - 20 | |
| Pélvicas | Cualidades more or less normal |
| posición abdominal beneath origin of D1 | |
| espinas 1 | |
| Rayos-suaves 6 - 8 |