Male displays a bright red dorsal fin. Ventral fins greatly extended. Female orange with yellowish tail and a pink line from the tip of the snout angling down, passing through the lower part of the eye (Ref. 48635).

Description: Characterized by having greatest depth of body 2.7-3.2 in SL; presence of fleshy protuberance at front of upper lip in males; slightly prolonged second dorsal spine of male; deeply forked to lunate caudal fin, usually with filamentous tips in male; elongate filament at pelvic fins in male (Ref. 90102).