A row of indistinct spots or blotches runs along the base of the first, spinous dorsal fin, whose anterior most interspinous membranes are dusted with black spots.
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The species was first identified and named Sillago attenuata by McKay in 1985 from the holotype specimen collected in 1948 from Ras Tanura, Zaal Island in the Persian Gulf, with a number of paratypes also examined.
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