| Main Ref. | Freyhof, J. and F. Herder, 2001 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | |
| Different colors | |
| Remarks | Males with slightly longer dorsal- and anal-fin rays and 1-6 cornified tubercles in a single toothlike row laterally on the snout posterior to premaxilla, under the eye. Spawning males with pale grey pigmentation below the lateral stripes (Ref. 41279). |
| Striking features | |
| Body shape lateral | elongated |
| Cross section | oval |
| Dorsal head profile | clearly convex |
| Type of eyes | |
| Type of mouth/snout | clearly protrusible |
| Position of mouth | sub-terminal/inferior |
| Type of scales | |
| Diagnosis |
Head and body below lateral midline whitish with many small dark grey spots (versus dark reddish brown); one black and white whitish longitudinal stripe of about same width (width of black stripe 0.9-1.8 times width of whitish stripe versus 0.3-0.6); distance from dorsal-fin origin to upper margin of whitish stripe about equal to distance from anal-fin origin to lower margin of black stripe (upper distance 0.9-1.2 times lower distance versus 1.8-2.7). |
| Ease of Identification |
| Lateral Lines | Interrupted: No |
| Scales on lateral line | |
| Pored lateral line scales | |
| Scales in lateral series | 30 - 32 |
| Scale rows above lateral line | |
| Scale rows below lateral line | |
| Scales around caudal peduncle | |
| Barbels | 0 |
| Gill clefts (sharks/rays only) | |
| Gill rakers | |
| on lower limb | |
| on upper limb | |
| total | |
| Vertebrae | |
| preanal | |
| total |
| Attributes | no striking attributes |
| Fins number | |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 8 - 8 |
| Adipose fin |
| Attributes | forked |
| Fins number | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | 11 - 11 |
| Pectoral | Attributes more or less normal |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 10 - 10 | |
| Pelvics | Attributes more or less normal |
| Position abdominal before origin of D1 | |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 7 - 7 |