Description

Dorsal spines (total): 11; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12 - 14; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 13 - 14. Females gray, shading to whitish ventrally on head and abdomen, with a median yellow stripe in dorsal and anal fins, and a large area of yellow in caudal fin. Males head and body reddish gray, darkening posteriorly to black, except abdomen which is whitish; caudal fin black except for a wedge-shaped white marking dorsally and ventrally at fin base; dorsal and anal fins white, the dorsal with a round black spot between fifth and sixth dorsal spines (Ref. 13442).

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Ovalentaria/misc

Family: Opistognathidae

Genus: Opistognathus

Species: Opistognathus gilberti Böhlke, 1967

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Inhabit steep slopes at the edges of banks (Ref. 5521). Mouthbrooders (Ref. 240).

Habitat

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