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  • body quadrangular, v compressed
    head profile steep
    D: 1st spine points forwards, deep notch after spines
    D&A soft parts = large lobes
    silvery + large black spots
    mouth small, horizontal, not projectable
    A IV
  • grey + 2 white bars + dense white dots
    C black & white
  • strongly compressed disc
    top head profile convex
    juv: v elongate pelvics, D&A
    juv: red to yellow brown, bars: eye, front body
    bars on head & front body, sometime tail base
    D,A edges black
    pelvics black
    pelvics + front rays D&A: elongate