| Main Ref. | Vatandoust, S. and S. Eagderi, 2015 |
| Appearance refers to | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| Specialized organs | |
| Different appearance | |
| Different colors | |
| Remarks |
| Striking features | |
| Body shape lateral | elongated |
| Cross section | circular |
| Dorsal head profile | |
| Type of eyes | |
| Type of mouth/snout | |
| Position of mouth | |
| Type of scales | |
| Diagnosis |
This species can be diagnosed from its congeners in Iran by a combination of none unique characters including scaled, stout and deep body; emarginate caudal fin, deep caudal peduncle; flanks with 7-10 irregular and interrupted vertical pale brown bars and 2 obvious small dark spots on the upper and lower caudal fin unbranched rays; moveable protuberance at the antero-ventral corner of the eye in males (Ref. 102005). Description: Dorsal fin with 7½ branched rays (simple rays cannot be counted); anal fin with 5½ branched rays (simple rays cannot be counted) (Ref. 102005). |
| Ease of Identification |
| Lateral Lines | Interrupted: No |
| Scales on lateral line | |
| Pored lateral line scales | |
| Scales in lateral series | |
| Scale rows above lateral line | |
| Scale rows below lateral line | |
| Scales around caudal peduncle | |
| Barbels | |
| Gill clefts (sharks/rays only) | |
| Gill rakers | |
| on lower limb | |
| on upper limb | |
| total | |
| Vertebrae | |
| preanal | |
| total |
| Attributes | no striking attributes |
| Fins number | 1 |
| Finlets No. | Dorsal |
| Ventral | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total | |
| Adipose fin | absent |
| Attributes | more or less truncate |
| Fins number | |
| Spines total | |
| Soft-rays total |
| Pectoral | Attributes more or less normal |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 9 - 9 | |
| Pelvics | Attributes more or less normal |
| Position abdominal | |
| Spines | |
| Soft-rays 7 - 7 |