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  • silver stripe wide
    lower jaw: inner rear surface only slightly raised
    gill rakers > / = 24
    breast scaled
    center lower jaw - teeth projecting
    D & A bases scaled
  • silver stripe narrow
    gill rakers < / = 21
    breast, throat, bases D & A - no scales
  • silver stripe wide
    lower jaw: inner rear projection
    gill rakers > / = 24
    breast scaled
    center lower jaw - no teeth projecting
    D&A bases not scaled
  • snout with pits & tubes (no quadrangular depressions)
    D1 II-IV, origin after A origin
    flank with silver stripe
  • body deep
    forehead profile convex
    D1 VI-IX, orgin before A origin
  • snout: 4 large quadrangular sensory pits
    D1 V-VI, origin before/after A orgin
    pelvic axillary scale > 1/3 fin length
  • snout: no sensory pits, tubes, pores
    D1 IV-VI, origin before A origin
    pelvic axillary scale absent/ < 1/4 fin