| Referencia principal | Lourie, S.A., A.C.J. Vincent and H.J. Hall, 1999 |
| El aspecto se refiere a | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| órganos especializados | other |
| diverso aspecto | always different morphology between mature adults |
| diversos colores | |
| Observaciones | Males with brood pouch; females with ovipositor (Ref. 205). Males are longer than females (Ref. 52034). |
| Características llamativas | striking shape of body |
| Forma lateral del cuerpo | other |
| Sección transversal | angular |
| Perfil dorsal de la cabeza | |
| Tipo de ojos | more or less normal |
| Tipo de boca/hocico | tube-like |
| Posición de la boca | terminal |
| Type of scales | |
| Diagnosis |
Description: (based on 54 specimens): Adult height: 8.0-15.0cm. Rings: 11+40-41 (38-43). Snout length: 2.2 (1.9-2.4) in head length. Dorsal fin rays: 20 (18-22) covering 2+1 rings. Pectoral fin rays: 17-18 (16-19). Coronet: very low, in line with arch of neck, visible as five tiny points. Spines: low and small to slightly raised. Other distinctive characters: very sharp hook-like cheek and eye spines; quite flat in appearance; narrow head; no nose spine. Color pattern: golden orange, sandy colored or totally black; may have large dark spots on the dorsolateral surface of the first, fourth and seventh trunk ring (less visible in dark specimens, and more common in males than females); some specimens ‘zebra striped’ in brown and white. |
| Facilidad de identificación |
| Líneas laterales | 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 | |
| Hendiduras branquiales (solamente tiburones/rayas) | |
| Branquispinas | |
| en el miembro inferior | |
| en el miembro superior | |
| total | |
| Vértebra | |
| preanal | |
| total |
| Cualidades | |
| Número de las aletas | 1 |
| número de pínnulas | Dorsal 0 - 0 |
| Ventral 0 - 0 | |
| total de espinas | 0 - 0 |
| Total de rayos suaves | 18 - 22 |
| Aleta adiposa | absent |
| Cualidades | other (see remark) |
| Número de las aletas | 1 |
| total de espinas | 0 - 0 |
| Total de rayos suaves | 4 - 4 |
| Pectoral | Cualidades used for locomotion |
| espinas 0 | |
| Rayos-suaves 16 - 19 | |
| Pélvicas | Cualidades suppressed/absent |
| posición absent | |
| espinas 0 | |
| Rayos-suaves 0 - 0 |