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  • horn = short, upturned knob
    sides: network pale lines on dark background
    eye to gill opening: row dark ocelli
    pectoral 12-13, rays with pads, inner 2/3 - pale + network dark spots, yellow edges
  • horn = blunt shelf
    mouth wide
    pupil oval
    1-7 paired clusters of dark, pale-edge spots along
    pectoral 12-13, rays with pads
  • horn: a shelf
    shoulders: white + black spots & orange blotches
    shoulder - cluster dark spots
    large bucklers: radiating black lines
    pectoral: 13, rays - no pads, yellow, orange edge