Cá Đù Pama

Diagnosis. A species of genus Otolithoides with the following combination of characters: a large species with a conical snout and large terminal mouth; eye diameter size small (9 to 11 % of HL); upper jaw reaching back beyond eye. Teeth well-differentiate enlarged in both jaws, with 1 or 2 pairs of canines in upper jaw. Lower gill rakers 10, long at join of arch, shorter in front. Dorsal fin with 10 spines, second part of the fin with 1 spine and 40 to 42 soft rays; the second anal spine short and weak; caudal fin pointed. Scales cycloid on head, elsewhere ctenoid; lateral line scales reaching to tip of caudal fin. Swimbladder carrot-shaped, with a single pair of appendages, arising from posterior end of bladder and running forward beside it enter head beneath the skull.