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head spines: short, pointed; snout to behind eye; 2 clusters 3-5 behind eyes, each with long slender papillacirri: eye heavily branched,nasal 2-3 tips
dark spot behind eyeD XXI-XXIII, front flap, front 1/2 brown + elongate black blotch
center top lip - 1 papilla -
spines: short, sharp, 2 V shape clusters, 3-5 behind eyes, no papillae
cirri: eye - heavily branched, nasal - 2-3 tips
D XX-XXII, I with flapmale: dark, front - many dots, D front - white + ocellus
female: yellowish, dark spots - operculum, D base (12-14) & A base (10) -
forehead: short knobs on low 2 ridges
papillae: 3-6 between eyes, 1 between nostrilseye cirrus heavily branched in 1 plane, asymmetricD front: flap, large dark blotch
row white dashes top back, lower head & D base white spots
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forehead spines: many, short, blunt, with papilla
eye cirrus unbranchedD XXIV, 12-13
head & front body dark
row white blotches - operculum to rear bodymale: black head and front body and D -
long spines - snout to rear nape
rear eye rim serrated
eye cirrus weakly brancheddark brown: white stripe: cheek to pectoral
body: 2 rows white blotches
D XXI-XXIII -
head spines: v short, blunt, none at rear nape
eye cirrus simple, iris redbody - 3 rows dark blotches + 2 rows pale/white blotches
male: head & back blackD XXII(XXI-XXIII), small black spot at front
head & back + dense blue dots, short white stripe on cheek -
spines short, sharp, snout to almost D
rear edge eye serrated
eye cirrus weakly branchediris yellow, behind eye - dark blotch, lower head - white spotsmale: black, snout & forehead white, white stripe on cheek
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