Diagnostic Description
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This species in distinguished from its congeners by the following characters: a conspicuouslydeep lower jaw with a strongly concave profile, sharply pointed ventrally (vs. slightly concave or straight lower jaw profile); black dorsal-fin marking is restricted to the anterior edge of the fin, with some scattered melanophores in the dorsal-fin membrane (vs. a large blotch over a larger area on the dorsal fin or an no markings) (Ref. 75067).
- Recorder
- Estelita Emily Capuli
Morphology
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Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 16; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 14; Vertebrae: 23
- Recorder
- Estelita Emily Capuli