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  • male: red below
    body: 4 dark bars + rows pale spots
    tail base: female - red, male - black
    C: female clear, male black
  • pectoral: 3 pink bars
    side: 3 wide H bars
    tail base: black & white, C: black, red & white
  • no eye cirrus
    body & tail base: 5 oblique black bars
    male: mid-flank row black spots + black C
  • eye: no cirrus
    snout dark
    iris red & black
    flank - row brown & white spots
    tail base white & black
    C: black & yellow
  • nasal bone: row small spines
    body: ~ 5 black bars
    under eye - dark bar
    pectoral: base - dark bar, fin - dark bars
    opercle scaled; inner pectoral base - large scale
    large scales above LL
  • nasal bone: smooth
    flank: brown scale borders
    tail base: top white
    upper opercle - patch scales
    pectoral: 15
    opercle scaled; inner pectoral base - no large scale
  • nasal bone: smooth
    female - 5 bars + dark scale edges
    male: red head, 5 black bars, C - black + 2 white bars
    pectoral: 16
    opercle scaled; inner pectoral base - no large scale