Priapichthys puetzi Meyer & Etzel 1996

The species lacks a series of vertical stripes along its body sides; males with a large black spot near the base of the gonopodium. Lower pharyngeal bone with a total number of 150 teeth (mean value); conical teeth of ceratobranchial 4, concentrated near the medial region and not extending at the side-arms. The scissor-like shaped gonopodium tip is rounded and strongly curved downward; ray 3 with strongly reduced spines; knob-like wings present dorsally on gonactinosts 5 and 6 of the gonopodial suspensorium (Ref. 42984).

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 10; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 9 - 10; Vertebrae: 26 - 27