Colour and patterning highly variable, from uniform to mottled with irregular bands. Colouring can be red, green, yellow, brown, black, orange and purple. Most distinctive feature is a black-edged light stripe extending obliquely behind eye, often with other narrow black lines radiating from eye and on cheek. Bottom dwelling in tide pools and subtidal areas.

• Max Size: 12 cm
• Sea Temperature Range: 14.9-22.3°C

• IUCN Threat Status: Not Evaluated
• Occurrence: Widespread (82% 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: Few (2 per transect)
  Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.