TWO-SPINED YELLOW-TAIL STARGAZER

Uranoscopus cognatus


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Uranoscopus cognatus Cantor, 1849

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Morphology: Dorsal spines (total): 4 - 5; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13 - 14; Anal soft rays: 12 - 15. A short black cirrus on eye. Respiratory valve inside lower jaw with a thread-like, pale appendage. Body without distinctive colour marks. Upper edge of opercle descending backward. Both nasal valves long and tubular. First dorsal fin with 4 (rarely 3) spines. Two basipterygial processes (Ref 42788)..

Max size: 16.5 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 3131)