Fig. 1 in A New Species Of Mudskipper, Boleophthalmus Poti (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Oxudercinae) From The Gulf Of Papua, Papua New Guinea, And A Key To The Genus

Fig. 1. Diagram of a mudskipper with 54 lateral scale rows (head to the left); 1 = scale overlapping the pectoral girdle (shaded); hc = scale column immediately before or overlapping with the hypural crease (shaded); scale rows (Hubbs & Lagler, 2004) are traced out at intervals of 10 rows; note that the rows can be detected and followed both above and below the lateral midline. For a comparison, Murdy's (1989) count of longitudinal scales (~70 scales are crossed by the dashed line) is also illustrated.