Orange Lined Reef Basslet

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).

Dorsal spines (total): 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11 - 12; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 8

Very secretive in dense brittle coral formation on coastal slopes at depths of about 25 m (Ref. 48635). Solitary (Ref 90102).