Species: Halichoeres pictus, Rainbow wrasse

Juvenile: head grey to whitish, body orange-yellow; a blackish to dark brown stripe from snout, through eye along midflank fading to brown then disappearing under the dorsal fin; a white stripe (which also fades behind) directly above the dark stripe. Initial phase: yellow-orange upper half, white below; a dark brown stripe from snout, through eye to end of tail base; a white stripe above that; fins yellow. Terminal phase: upper ½ of head and front of body green to red, changing to olive to orange-brown along rear ½ of body, lower half bluey white; those two colors may be separated by a black stripe from nose to end of tail base that  joins a large elongate black and blue ocellus at the end of tail base and base of the caudal fin; a blue stripe above eye and 2 below; lower head with blue stripes; dorsal fin orange to red, anal fin blue.