Species: Serranus tico, Cocos serrano

Head & nape red brown; a thin blue stripe  behind top of eye, another above eye; a white stripe under eye running back through center of operculum; a blackish blotch & small orange spots on lower preopercle and lower opercle; body with about eight long, narrow bars these red on upper half and bright yellow to orange below, front bars may coalesce to form more or less solid red area on upper body, in which case the yellow portions have the appearance of a row of vertically elongate rectangular blotches; a broad whitish bar across tail base; base of caudal fin red; spinous dorsal red basally, a row of white spots centrally, outer part orange, with white spine tips; pelvics white.