Main identification features
- top jaw - toothless notch at front
- body elongate
- c: large, angular point
- top and bottom teeth not touching
- preoperculum covered with skin
PARANEBRIS
CROAKERS
Elongate, somewhat compressed body; head large, triangular, with long blunt snout; eye small; mouth large (extends just past eye), lower jaw slightly projecting; tip of lower jaw with 2 pores and a central knob; toothless skin-covered gap at front of top jaws; teeth short, conical to flat, tightly packed in a patch that is like sandpaper to touch, tooth bands on top jaw do not converge at front, those on bottom jaw do, when mouth is closed top jaw tooth bands are exposed at each side and enclose the lower jaw, hence the teeth of the top and bottom jaws do not touch; gill rakes long and slender on sides, short and knob-like in center; preopeculum margin smooth; a bony scaly flap over top edge of gill cover; dorsal fin X, 21; anal fin with short base, II short spines, 8 rays; tail fin long, rhomboidal; pectoral moderately long, extends slightly beyond tip of pelvic; scales large, rough on body and fins, smooth on head (except a few rough scales on opercle), dorsal and anal with 1-2 rows of scales along base; lateral line scales that have pores are rough, with branching canals.
A genus with a single species, which is endemic to the tropical eastern Pacific.
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- Chao , L. N. , Béarez , P. and Robertson, D. R., 2001., A new genus and new species of Sciaenidae from the Gulf of Panama (Perciformes: Sciaenidae)., Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49(Supplement 1):81-87.
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