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  • nape: 2 rows red & white barred cirri
    green
    blotched & barred
  • cirri simple: 1-11 over eye, nape 1
    green, body - bars + white spots; head - dark spot
    D XIII, deep notch
    snout rounded, overhanging
    top lip - edges wrinkled
  • male nape: pair skin crests
    eye cirrus - broad base, small basal branches
    grey-brown + orange spots.
    preoperculum pores single
    pelvic I, 3
    A usually 17 segmented rays
  • eye cirrus - stalk + top branches
    male: pair skin folds on nape
    brown + indistinct pale lines
    preoperculum pores - groups of 5+
    pelvic I, 3
    A usually 17 segmented rays
  • eye cirrus long, branches at base
    lower head - blue bars
    color & pattern v variable: spotted, striped, all yellow
    D spot at front