One row of six or eight curved teeth occur in each jaw, arranged by length in a step-like fashion, with the front teeth being the longest; the pharyngeal teeth are enlarged and have two or more cusps each.
32.
This species has 36 to 43 scales in the lateral line, 7.0 to 8.5 scales above the lateral line, 13 to 16 circumpeduncular scales, denticulated ( vs . smooth ) grinding teeth surfaces, 6-5 / 5 pharyngeal teeth and 15 to 19 gill rakers.
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At the same time, " Prosphaerosyllis " is close to " Erinaceusyllis ", but its species'pharyngeal teeth are rhomboidal to oval and located near the middle of their pharynges; also their antennae are short, tentacular and their dorsal cirri have a bulbous cirrophore and retractile cirrostyle.
34.
From other Garrini ( or Garraina ), the genus " Garra " can be distinguished as follows : their pharyngeal teeth are arranged in three rows ( like 2, 4, 5 5, 4, 2 ), the dorsal fin has 10-11 rays and starts slightly anterior to the pelvic fins, while the anal fin starts well behind the pelvic fins and has 8-9 rays.
35.
Dorsal fin with 3 simple and 7 branched rays, free margin convex; anal fin with three simple and 7 branched rays, its free margin from straight to slightly convex; when depressed it reaches about one half of caudal peduncle length; pectoral fins oval, with one simple and 13-15 branched rays, when depressed on the flanks it may reach or overpass the insertion of the pelvic fins, in males, in females may reach 2 / 3 of the pectoral-pelvic fins distance; pharyngeal teeth hooked at the tip and serrated; about 5.2 or 4.2 teeth on pharyngeal bones.
36.
Others characters useful for determination, but not unique to this species are the pharyngeal teeth formula, 5.2 or 4.2, shared with " P . poxinus " but not " P . apollonicus "; pored lateral line nearly complete, reaching almost the end of the caudal peduncle, in " P . ketmaieri " and " P . phoxinus " do not reach more than half of the length of caudal peduncle; eye large, its diameter more than the preorbital distance, but less in the other species; snout short and blunt; longitudinal band from tip of snout to caudal peduncle where it forms a roundish spot; the band is more evident in the second half of the body; the flanks have 12-14 mid-lateral row of vertical elliptic blocks, more evident on the second half of body; anterior origin of anal fin placed at same level of vertical through posterior insertion of dorsal fin.
