Shorefishes - Gallery

Y bone on nape short & broad

white spots on head & body variable in size

C: central dark stripe usually extends onto tail base

Y bone on nape long, narrow

head and back: white spots small, dense, uniform in size

C: central dark stripe usually not extending onto tail base

upper body: dark-edged white spots

D 2-3 oblique black bars

C: 2-5 elongate black spots

upper body mottled

C central dark bar

pectoral brown, edge white

top head - bones exposed

juv: blackish, fins pale + dark base, LL pale

chin - bony converging ridges

behind operculum: 1 blunt, flat spine
back brown + many small spots; fin bases dark