High body with a slightly steep head profile and a large mouth. Red or orange with a large pale patch on for body, a smaller, vertically elongated white patch on mid body, a white patch on gill cover and a bright red oblique bar from eye to bottom of gill cover. Small bluish band connects the eyes. Red colour occasionally replaced with blue. Juveniles pale with a brown stripe extending forward from tail base, fading on body, a white patch below a brown patch on upper mid body and a blue line connecting eyes.

• Max Size: 50 cm
• Sea Temperature Range: 14.9-24.1°C
• Depth: 1-100m
• Habitat: Coral Reef, Rocky Reef

• Threats: Exploitation
• IUCN Threat Status: Not Evaluated
• Occurrence: Widespread (100% of sites)
  Occurrence describes how often the species is found on surveys within its distribution. It is calculated as the % of reef sites surveyed by RLS divers across all the ecoregions in which the species has been observed
• Abundance: Several (9 per transect)
  Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.