Key Identification Features
- The head features thin blue lines and small spots, while the body scales bear blue lines or dashes.
- Juveniles and some adults have two silvery-white spots on the back near their dorsal fins; this feature gives the species its common name.
- Ocyurus chrysurus, commonly called yellowtail snapper, has a distinct yellow lateral band that starts at the snout and widens toward its completely yellow, forked tail.
- A unique identifying feature of this species is the presence of teeth on its ectopterygoid bones.
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