Juveniles with dark lines radiating from eye and dark lines on anal and soft dorsal fins (Ref. 4420).

Description: Characterized further by dark brown body color; yellowish snout and pectoral fins; dorsal and anal fins white with black margins; caudal fin pink with white base; front of eye with deep groove; 28-32 head scale rows from corner of mouth to lower end of gill opening; 67-74 body scale rows from upper end of gill opening to caudal fin base; not prominent longitudinal ridges following scale rows of posterior body; truncate to slightly emarginate caudal fin (Ref. 90102).