Key Identification Features
- Juvenile De Beaufort's flathead are primarily black, with a small number of white spots and a distinct white line behind the head.
- The mouth is large, with a wide band of small teeth on each jaw, and two distinct patches of vomerine teeth.
- The head only features low, non-spined, non-serrated parieto-occipital, scapular, and preopercular ridges.
- Two distinct bony ridges run behind the eye.
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