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  • body: 8-9 dark saddles that extend onto D
    cheek: red-brown spots in pale mesh
    pectoral base: pale lines + red & black spots
    top lip usually barred
    under head 3-4 rows dark spots
  • male: eye cirri long, red & white bars
    mottled red-brow, oblique pale/white bar under eye
    central rays of pectoral fin long
    pelvics very long
  • pale + irregular dark spots, larger above
    Y shaped pale area behind eye +/- spots
    belly & lower head - no dark spots
    lips not barred
  • nasal cirrus long
    broad dark bars + narrow pale bars with dark center line
    D base: pair red spots above each dark body bar, white bar between those
    pelvic: 3 obvious
  • ~7 bars extending only D base, interspaces narrow
    C base: 2 dark fans + thin white bar behind
  • 9 dark saddles that extend onto D base
    rear 1/3 body - dark dots
    cheeks dark + reticulating pale spots
    lips: dark bars
    pectoral base: pale diagonal bar