Cobra Fish

Description: Characterized by greyish body color; white on lower head and ventrally on side; black spot behind eye; narrow yellow stripe from eye to middle of caudal peduncle; stripe on pectoral fin base to lower caudal peduncle, broad dusky grey to blackish; black bar on upper two thirds of caudal fin base; blackish midlateral stripe on caudal fin and diffuse dusky brown oblique band across upper lobe of caudal fin; longitudinal scale series 90-109; presence of head pores around top and rear margin of each eye and two preopercular pores (Ref. 90102).

Dorsal spines (total): 5 - 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 14 - 17; Analspines: 1; Analsoft rays: 14 - 16

Form schools among mangroves and in coastal inlets, associate with P. formosus (Ref. 1602).

Form schools among mangroves and in coastal inlets, associate with P. formosus (Ref. 1602).