Top pale orange/brown with four darker transverse bands, lower sides with a granular pattern, base pale; teeth fine, purple (Wilson, 1993).
Wilson (1993) notes that this species is moderately common in coral reef habitats and that it is extremely variable. He does not illustrate or explain the range of variability. One of the specimens photographed here has fine purple teeth and the top has the described colour pattern but the base is not uniformly pale.
by Anne Hoggett