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  • 2 black-ringed orange squares behind eye
    lower body: white + orange bars
  • pale brown, +/- dark bar - spiny D to anus
    top corner opercle- oblique, narrow black, blue-edged bar
    opercle - only central spine visible
  • belly white + 4 orange & brown rectangular blotches
    C base: 2 rows black spots
  • red-brown, belly - large bright white blotch
    head - wiggly blue stripes
    C top & bottom margins: row brown spots
  • head & body: brown + small, dense dark spots
    rear belly: prominent white bar
    C base: 2 indistinct oceli
  • 2 dark blotches: center flank, C base
    D 12, spines: no filaments, edge yellow
    C 15 branched rays, concave, dark spot at base
  • white + 2 black stripes & elongate black blotches
    front D: large black blotch
    C forked, clear + black top & bottom margins
    opercule: central spine large, curves up
  • whitish + faint yellow bars
    eye large, yellow
    fins pale, D & C - yellow tips
    top head scaled to between eyes
    opercular spines weak
  • brown bar through eye, white bar - operculum & chest
    body 4-6 brown bars
    belly: bright white bar
    juv: 2 black bars + 3 dark stripes
    opercle spines poorly developed
  • pale; dark oblique bar under eye
    dark bar - front D to center belly, belly bright white
    thick stripe mid flank, thin stripe above
  • brown, rear 1/2 - 4 dark bars
    scale edges v dark, form lines
    front soft D black blotch
  • white; broad orange-brown stripe - eye to C base
    C: dark C shape
  • white above, yellow below + narrow black bars
    lower head & throat: large black blotches
    C black basal bar, black spots in center
  • blue-grey to pink-brown
    ~8 white narrow bars - upper head & back
    flank - row 2-3 pale blotches