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  • back: 6 hourglass saddles
    lower body: 8-13 narrow dark V bars
    top 1/2 pectoral base: dark botch
    front nostril - tiny flap
    sucker: front edge rough, with flaps
  • body: 5 dark bars above ~10 narrow bars below
    top head & back: blue spots
    sucker: front edge smooth
    pectoral 21
    A 7, origin under D ray 2-3
    anus nearer A than to sucker
  • tan + orange cast
    D 7
    sucker: front edge smooth
    anus midway between sucker and A
  • male: 6-7 dark bars, 2nd & 3rd = inverted Y
    female side: 4 bright white spots
    front nostril - small flap
    D 8
    sucker: front edge smooth
    anus nearer to /midway between sucker than to A
  • dark blotch above pectoral base
    top back: 6 hourglass bars
    lower body - 6-8 bars
    sucker front edge - skin flaps
    anus centered between sucker & A
    black shoulder spot
    front nostril - large flap
  • pectoral base: 2 oblique bars
    lower body: dark V bars
    front nostril: tiny flap
    D 6-7
    sucker: front edge with flaps
    A origin under D ray 2-4
    anus midway to/nearer to A than to sucker
  • 5-9 bars, rear 4 v wide
    D, C & A: black base, red edge
    front nostril - no flap
    sucker: front edge smooth
    PC 20
    A 6, origin under D ray 4-5
    anus nearer A than to sucker
  • 6 dark saddles on back
    head - blue-white dots
    flank: 8-13 wide bars + narrow white interspaces
    front nostril - tiny flap
    sucker: front edge rough, + flaps
    A origin under D rays 1-2
    anus nearer sucker than to A
  • head & body: dark + strong narrow pale bars
    pectoral base: dark + 2 diagonal pale bars
    anus centered between A and sucker
    front nostril - large flap
    sucker: front edge rough, + flaps