Shorefishes - Gallery

dark scale edges -> cross-hatching

D 7-8 (5-10)
A 8-11

gill rakers 5-12

male: pectoral 5th ray scalloped, sex organ - no palp, + hooks above tip

lateral scales 26-34

jaws form long beak, lower jaw projects
teeth = canines

faint stripe along flank
fins golden

D7
A 9

Colombia

male: pectoral 5th ray scalloped, sex organ - no palp, + hooks above tip

lateral scales 33

black stripe along body; black blotch front of D

teeth compressed

male: pelvic tips not swollen, pectoral 5th ray not scalloped

male sex organ - no fleshy palp, down-curved hook at tip

front D: black spot

1 row hooked teeth

< / = 8 scale rows origin D to origin A