Pseudogramma axelrodi Allen & Robertson 1995

Live specimens brown, including fins; body covered with numerous large tan blotches. Upper part of operculum with a prominent eye-sized ocellated dark brown spot; two dark brown lines radiating backward from lower half of eye across the cheek, and a vertical white bar below the eye. Lateral line scales + 4-23 when counting pored as well as the tubed scales. Longitudinal scale series 49-51. A short, broad-based, triangular, dermal flap dorsally on eye. A large pore in interorbital space on each side close to the edge of the orbit; a small median pore posterior in interorbital space. Tubular anterior nostril when laid back reach slightly more than half distance to posterior nostril.

Dorsal spines (total): 6 - 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 20 - 22; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 17 - 18; Vertebrae: 26

A cryptic species found in crevices and caves on the outer reef slope at 15-30 m; collected with rotenone (Ref. 81033). Minimum depth from Ref. 58018.