ORDER OPHIOCEPHALFORMES
Family OPHIOCEPHALFORMES
Genus OPHIOCEPHALFORMES
1a.Vomer and palatines with a more or less continuous pluriserial band of small teeth ,none of them canine...............
1b.Vomer and palatines with 1 or 2 series of teeth which are mostly canine or canini-form.................................
2a.A conspicuous black light odged ocellus at upper base of caudal fin........................................3
2b. No,ocellus at base of caudal fin; a posterior row of about 5 canine teeth on each ramus of lower jaw lataral line scalos 52 to 57 , dropping abruptly 2 row at 17th to 20th perforated scales.....................0
3a. Four to five dark blotches along sida below lateral line;a posterior row of about 12 large conical teeth on each ramus of lower jaw......................................
3b.No dark blotches on sides,posterior teeth in lower jaw uniserlal, small, interspersed with widely separated blunt caniniform teeth................................................
4a. Lateral line scales 41 to 45; dropping 1row at 10th to13th perforated scale meddian fins with a narrow bright red margin.............................
4b. Lateral line scales 50 to 65......................................5
4c.Lateral line 82 to 95, without an abrupt drop; 2 narrow parallel black stripes extending from eye and anhle of mouth to tip of caudal fin..............................................
5a.Lateral line scales 50 to 55; rows of scales between eye and angle of preopercle 6 to 7..............................
5b.Lateral line scales 58-65; rows of scales between eye and angle of preopercle 10 to 13....................................