Species: Serranus stilbostigma, Side-blotch serrano

Head and body red, breast orange; a few small pale spots on cheek and opercle; front of back with indistinct dark and light speckles; a large, square black blotch on lower front of soft dorsal fin, extending onto body below, behind this 3 smaller black spots on top of back and dorsal base; a row of ~ 10 black spots along mid-flank from under soft dorsal to end of tail base, with faint irregular dark spots below this row; a large oblique cream bar extends from midbelly to lateral line; spiny dorsal with 3 rows dark spots separated by pale streaks, soft dorsal with several basal dark spots, and a pale medial stripe above; upper ½ of tail red, with a few small black spots, lower ½ black; outer half of anal and pelvics dark; pectoral pale.