Shorefishes - Gallery

lower body: thin gold stripes

2nd + 3rd body bars form H

head yellowish, body - dark bars over diamond-shaped blotches

front D: large yellow ringed ocellus

opercle - indistinct ocellus

greenish, 5 long bars, extend to D edge

D ~XIX

length 3rd pelvic ray >1/4 longest ray

pectoral ~14, base no scales
LL 48-62

back - dark saddles
back under (but not onto) rear D spines: ocellus

lower body & tail base: ~10 dark bars

front D ocellus
ocellus on body & last D spines

male head - red spots

grey/brown/yellow, many small dark & light spots

upper back +/- bars

inner teeth small

pectoral 15, base scaled

length 3rd pelvic ray >1/4 longest ray

back: 4 triangular saddles + end tail-base bar
+/- scattered red dots

D: front elevated, dark

5 wide dark bars (extend to D edge), front 2 ivert

D XVIII, front elevated, dark