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Description
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Morphology: Dorsal spines (total): 8 - 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12 - 13; Anal spines: 3 - 3; Anal soft rays: 10 - 11. Body elongate; 3 primary color phases, the smallest with a black mid-lateral stripe which continues as pale red blotches on head; back above stripe yellow on reef fish and whitish on fish from inshore non-reef areas, and body below white. The largest phase, has a bright blue head and a green body with two broad vertical black bars anteriorly which are separated by a light blue interspace; this phase is always male. The small yellow phase with the black stripe may be either male or female (Ref. 13442).
Max size: 25 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 26340)
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Callionymus enneactis Bleeker, 1879
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Aulostomus maculatus Valenciennes, 1837
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Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Gorgasia hawaiiensis Randall & Chess, 1979
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