Description: head and body pale beige with 5 faint brown vertical bands; scattered patches of pale brown between vertical bands; brown band along midline of ventral profile of head, lined with pale blue; few pale blue spots on and above operculum; small elongate fish, head and body moderately compresses; mouth large, gape oblique, jaws nearly equal anteriorly, reaching posteriorly approximately to a vertical through centre of pupil; upper lip broad as lower; gill opening extending forward ventrally to vertically below a point just posterior to hind margin of orbit; 97-103 rows of scales in lateral series from dorsal angle of branchial opening to base of caudal fin, latter with an additional 4-6 rows basally; 29-32 transverse scale series, counted forwards and upwards from first anal spine to approximately below sixth dorsal spine; 26-27 scales in zigzag series around narrowest part of caudal peduncle (Ref. 26237).