Southwest Pacific: Australia.

Dorsal spines (total): 10; Dorsal soft rays (total): 14; Analspines: 3; Analsoft rays: 7; Vertebrae: 26

9.4 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 57080))

This species has the following distinguishing characters: D X, 14; A III, 7; pectoral rays 16; lateral-line scales 36; gill rakers 13 + 30; body depth 2.7 in SL; head length (HL) 2.85 in SL; large eye, orbit diameter 3.1 in HL; long spine at angle of preopercle, reaching margin of subopercle; triangular and tri-Iobed vomerine tooth patch; teeth absent on mesopterygoids; scales dorsally on snout almost reaching upper lip; naked mandible; third dorsal spine elongate, 1.6 in HL; moderately prolonged as filaments are the rays of about anterior half of soft portion of dorsal fin, with the third ray longest; second anal spine is slightly longer than third, 2.1 in HL; deeply emarginate caudal fin, its lobes tapering little and not pointed, fin length 2.5 in SL; pectoral fins 1.2 in HL; pelvic fins reaching third anal spine base, 2.95 in SL; color when fresh is pale pink and yellow with a broad blackish yellow submaginal band in soft portion of dorsal fin, with caudal fin broadly yellow basally, the lobes and upper and lower margins bright pink (Ref. 57080).

Depth range based on 1 specimen in 1 taxon.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 128 - 128
 
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benthopelagic; marine; depth range 126 - 130 m (Ref. 57080)

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