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body: male ~12 dark bars + red spots, female pearl & red spots
sometimes many black spotsD 9, origin behind A origin
gill rakers 6-88 chin pores
preoperculum 7 poresA usually 8scales around tail base 20 -
female: narrow dark bars + dark spots, D - ocellusD 10-12
gill rakers 5male: 14-18 long wide dark bars, no dark ocellus on D6-8 chin poresfemale: little/no pouch before A -
snout < / = eyeD origin before A origin
gill rakers 7-13tail base least depth > 13% SL9-10 chin poresfemale: pouch before A > 10% fin length31-38 lateral scales
predorsal scales 13-19 -
snout ~ 2x eye
no scales before eyeD origin before/over A origin
gill rakers 8-11tail base least depth > 13% SL12 chin poresfemale: pouch before A > 10% fin length37-41 lateral scales
predorsal scales 21-25
Yucatan -
Male - wide dark & narrow silvery bars
Male - ocellus D baseD origin well before A origin
D = / > rays than Alateral scales 31-34lower jaw 8 pores -
snout sharply pointed
dark behind eyeD 8-9, origin behind A origin
gill rakers 10scale edges dark - > cross-hatch0 chin poresA 11scales: 29-32 lateral, 14-16 around tail base -
snout pointed, long
D 11-16, origin before A originmale: 10-15 bars
female: 1-3 dark stripes + bars on tail basetail base least depth > 13% SLchin pores 7-8
gill rakers 6-10scales: lateral scales 33-37, around body 26-32 -
snout pointed, elongate
narrow dark bars: female 12-18, male 10-15
scales before eyeD 9-11, origin over/before A originN Yucatanchin pores 8
gill rakers 6-8lateral scales 34-36
Yucatan -
male: many narrow dark bars, pearl spots at rear & fins
female: many dark spots, D dark spotD 9-11, origin before A originchin pores 8
gill rakers 7lateral scales 33-37 -
many pale spots + narrow pale bars
male - fins dark + pale spotsD 10-15, origin over/before A originCuba10 chin pores
gill rakers 7-9lateral scales 32-33 -
snout long, pointed
scale angles - black dotsD 13-20, origin before A origintail base long, slendergill rakers 6-7lateral scales 50-55 -
snout long, pointedD 11-13, origin before A originboth sexes: 12+ narrow dark bars8 chin pores
gill rakers 6-1033-37 lateral scales -
diamond shapedbody: narrow white barsjaws - > 1 row teethlower jaw no poreslateral scales 24-26