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  • red; C yellow, tips black
    head: 2 yellow lines
    D 14-15
    gill rakers 18-23
    pectoral 14-16
    LL 43
  • C tips black
    D 13
    gill rakers 20-21
    pectoral 15
    LL 43
  • red + yellow stripes
    C lobes: edges yellow, black tips
    D 12
    LL 43
    gill rakers 20
  • head salmon + yellow stripe; body yellow above, salmon below
    yellow stripe: snout to operculum
    juv: C yellow + red blotch, border white
  • body: yellow over white + yellow spots
    yellow stripe: snout to operculum
    juv: pink + yellow spots; C yellow
  • body yellow over white
    top lip orange
    flank - white chevrons
    C: yellow + lower tip black
  • D X (III v elongate), weak notch
    top head, back and spiny D: brick red
    body yellow-brown
    white stripe: snout to white blotch under D, white blotches behind
  • D X (III v elongate), weak notch, front spines white
    head & body yellow-orange
    head: white marks, white under eye
    body: 4 long irregular white bars