어름돔 (Plectorhinchus cinctus)의 형태 및 골격

Description of Morphology and Osteology of the Plectorhinchus cinctus

For morphological and osteological studies of Plectorhinchus cinctus, samples were collected in Yeosu fisheries market and analyzed. The differences of covariance were presented in following characteristics: body color, body shape, black bands, and spots ranging from back to tail. P. cinctus had 12 dorsal fin spines, 15~16 fin rays, 16~19 pectoral fin rays, 1 ventral fin spines, 5 ventral fin rays, 3 anal spines, and 6~9 fin rays. The taxonomic characteristics of skeleton were supra-occipital bone, the basisphenoid bone in the skull, the maxillary bone, the angular bone in the jaw bone, existence and nonexistence of the supra-temporal bone in the shoulder, and the number of the branchiostegal ray bones.