Species: Awaous banana, River goby

Background color brown dorsally, sides light yellowish tan, ventral surface white or pale yellow; sides of head with 3 black slanted bars; body with about 7 irregular black bars on upper side, the first extending from above the gill cover onto the pectoral fin, the bar under the origin of the 1st dorsal crescent-shaped, curving from in front of the dorsal fin to the ventral surface of the body; flank with 7-8 black blotches; back with a series of black irregular small spots, in front of and along first dorsal fin; dorsal fin yellowish; anal and pelvic fins pinkish; base of pectoral fin pinkish orange, the remainder yellowish, except for black bar on its front; tail fin with 7-8 black bars. Both sexes have similar colors. Juvenile with 3 dark diagonal bars on nape, 4 bars on lower body under 2nd dorsal fin and tail base.