| Serranidae (Sea basses: groupers and fairy basslets), subfamily: Liopropomatinae |
| 5.6 cm TL (male/unsexed) |
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reef-associated; depth range 20 - 110 m |
| Western Pacific: Vanuatu, Philippines, Indonesia and New Britain, Papua New Guinea |
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Dorsal spines (total): 8-8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11-12; Anal spines: 3-3; Anal soft rays: 8-8. Readily identified by the orange stripes and the white-edged black ocelli in the second dorsal and anal fins (Ref. 48635).
Description: Characterized by having a pair of black spots on upper and lower caudal fin lobe; pair of enlarged pores in interorbital space and large pore anteromedially from each posterior nostril; pelvic fins 1.6-1.8 in head length (Ref. 90102). |
| Very secretive in dense brittle coral formation on coastal slopes at depths of about 25 m (Ref. 48635). Solitary (Ref 90102). |
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(Ref. 96402)
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| harmless |
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