Type specimens of the new species have been deposited in the Phuket Marine Biological Center (PMBC),
Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu (BPBM); Australian
Museum, Sydney (AMS) and the U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington. D.C. (USNM).
Specimens were collected by small spear using snorkel and SCUBA in relatively shallow water (to 15 m).
Lengths of specimens are given as standard length (SL) which is measured from the most anterior median
point of the upper lip or upper dental plate (whichever is more anterior) to the base of the caudal fin (posterior
end of hypural plate); head length is measured from the same anterior point to the posterior end of the opercular
flap; body depth is the greatest depth from the base of the dorsal spines to the ventral margin of the abdomen
(correcting for any obvious malformation of preservation); body width is measured just posterior to the
gill opening; orbit diameter is the greatest fleshy diameter, and interorbital width the least bony width; caudalpeduncle
depth is the least depth, and caudal-peduncle length the horizontal distance between verticals at the
rear base of the anal fin and the caudal-fin base; caudal-fin length is taken from the base of the fin horizontally
to the end of the longest ray; caudal concavity is the horizontal distance between verticals at the tips of the
shortest and longest rays; lengths of fin spines and rays of the dorsal and anal fins are measured from their
extreme bases without straightening the rays; pectoral fin length is the length of the longest ray; pelvic fin
length is measured from the base of the pelvic spine to the tip of the longest soft ray. Pectoral ray counts
include the first, upper, spine which is short and stout. Lateral-line scale counts do not include the two pored
scales posterior to the hypural plate (i.e. lying on the base of the caudal fin); counts of the scales of the cheek
are made as indicated in Schultz (1958). Data in parentheses in the description refer to paratypes.