Morphology Summary - Canthigaster punctata

Sex attributes

Striking features
Body shape lateral (shape guide)	short and / or deep
Cross section	compressed
Dorsal head profile
Type of eyes
Type of mouth/snout
Position of mouth
Type of scales
Diagnosis	This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: D 10; A 10; pectoral fin 10. Colouration: dorsal half of the body light brown when preserved in alcohol with many small dark brown spots; side of the body with an elongated horse-shoe shaped brown band; pale caudal fin with several vertical lines; upper and lower caudal fin base with a dark brown spot (Ref. 138128). Description: eyes have radiating yellow lines; sides and belly are white, with 2 parallel dark lines running from pectoral-fin bases to the peduncle, joining just in front of gill opening, and narrower yellow lines between dark lines; dorsal, anal and pectoral fins are pale; caudal fin has yellow rays and vertical, wavy, dark blue lines (Ref. 127964).
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