Mentawai Sole

Description: Characterized by having pale orange brown color in preservative; numerous faint dusky spots (two on lateral line largest and most visible); dorsal rays branched except first 24 rays; anal rays branched except first 8; pectoral fins absent; lateral line of eyed side unbranched with 64 scales, including 6 anterior to upper end of gill opening; very short caudal peduncle; ctenoid scales; tubular anterior nostril reaching anterior edge of lower eye when laid back; diameter of eye 6.3 in HL; depth of body 2.5 in SL (Ref. 90102).

Dorsal soft rays (total): 66; Analsoft rays: 47; Vertebrae: 36

Specimen collected on sand in 0-1.5 m (Ref. 90102).