| Referencia principal | Iwatsuki, Y., S.J. Newman, F. Tanaka and B.C. Russell, 2018 |
| El aspecto se refiere a | |
| Bones in OsteoBase |
| órganos especializados | no special organs |
| diverso aspecto | males alike females |
| diversos colores | males alike females |
| Observaciones |
| Características llamativas | none |
| Forma lateral del cuerpo | fusiform / normal |
| Sección transversal | compressed |
| Perfil dorsal de la cabeza | more or less straight |
| Tipo de ojos | more or less normal |
| Tipo de boca/hocico | more or less normal |
| Posición de la boca | terminal |
| Type of scales | ctenoid scales |
| Diagnosis |
This species is distinguished from Psammoperca datnioides by the following set of characters: Colouration: when alive, the head and body brownish dark and often golden in colour; pored lateral-line scales yellow-edged; and similar yellowish brown colour in preserved specimens; lower counts of pored lateral line scales 46-48; hind margin of maxilla reaching slightly short of hind margin of eye when mouth closed; tiny scales that are not seen with naked eye, but visible through binocular scope, on the posterior uppermost part of maxilla; pelvic-fin spine subequal to 4th dorsal spine; circumpeduncular scale 21-22; moderately lesser body depth, 32-36% (mean 36%) of SL; lower counts, 5½ / 7½-9½ scale rows above and below lateral line; gill rakers 7 (including 6 rudiments) + 1 + 11 (including 3 rudiments) = 19 (9 rudiments); last dorsal-fin spine / penultimate dorsal-fin spine 1.5-1.7 (Ref. 124584). |
| Facilidad de identificación |
| Líneas laterales | 1 interrumpido: No |
| Escalas en la línea lateral | 45 - 50 |
| Escalas de la línea lateral con poros | |
| Escalas en las series laterales | |
| Filas de escalas sobre la línea lateral | 5.5 - 5.5 |
| Filas de escalas debajo de la línea lateral | 7.5 - 9.5 |
| Escalas alrededor del peduncule caudal | 21 - 22 |
| Barbillas | 0 |
| Hendiduras branquiales (solamente tiburones/rayas) | |
| Branquispinas | |
| en el miembro inferior | |
| en el miembro superior | |
| total | 19 - 19 |
| Vértebra | |
| preanal | 11 - 11 |
| total | 14 - 14 |
| Cualidades | no striking attributes |
| Número de las aletas | 1notched No |
| número de pínnulas | Dorsal 0 - 0 |
| Ventral 0 - 0 | |
| total de espinas | 8 - 8 |
| Total de rayos suaves | 12 - 14 |
| Aleta adiposa | absent |
| Cualidades | more or less truncate; more or less normal |
| Número de las aletas | 1 |
| total de espinas | 3 - 3 |
| Total de rayos suaves | 8 - 8 |
| Pectoral | Cualidades more or less normal |
| espinas 0 | |
| Rayos-suaves 16 - 16 | |
| Pélvicas | Cualidades more or less normal |
| posición abdominal beneath origin of D1 | |
| espinas 1 | |
| Rayos-suaves 5 - 5 |