Shorefishes - Gallery

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

Y bone on nape short & broad

body dark, white spots conspicuous, large spots at rear

C: central dark stripe extending onto tail base

Y bone on nape long, narrow

body pale, white spots not very conspicuous, no larger at rear

C: central dark stripe 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