Opistognathus brochus Bussing & Lavenberg 2003

This small (3.9-5.4 cm SL), slender species possess the following combination of characters: dark speckling on head and body; dusky dorsal and anal fins, several black blotches on dorsal fin; short maxilla (0.5-0.9 eye diameters beyond orbit), truncate; long and slender teeth; D 13, A III; 49-57 oblique scale rows in longitudinal series; 28(29)-31 pores in lateral line series; gill rakers on lower limb of first arch 15 (17)-18; anterior nostril with a short tube without cirrus; 16 caudal vertebrae 16 (Ref. 75633).

Dorsal spines (total): 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 12; Vertebrae: 26

Collected by otter trawls and dredge. Female specimens at 3.85 and 4.32 cm SL are gravid (Ref. 75633).