Description ⁵

Juvenilles and females usually have brown, green, or white spots, while large males have orange bands or spots on the sides of their body.2 This species of fish usually has caudal fin rays, or a tail fin, and is sexually dimorphic.2

Sources and Credits

1. (c) 2006 Moorea Biocode, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=203733&one=T
2. (c) 2001 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=32700&one=T
3. (c) 2001 California Academy of Sciences, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?seq_num=32698&one=T
4. (c) Williams, Jeffrey T., some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=fishes&irn=10248914
5. Public Domain, http://eol.org/data_objects/11366614

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Animal Diversity Web
• Atlas of Living Australia
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• Fish Database of Taiwan
• FishBase
• FishSource
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• NatureServe Explorer 2.0
• VertNet
• World Register of Marine Species
• 日本のレッドデータ検索システム

Range Map

(c) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific online information system. www.stri.org/sftep, some rights reserved (CC-BY-NC)

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