Scientific Name
Pseudochromis howsoni
Common Name
Howson's dottyback
Biology
Dorsal
spines
(total): 3;
Dorsal
soft rays
(total): 26;
Anal
spines: 3;
Anal
soft rays: 14. Anterior tips of palatine tooth patches directed medially behind posterolateral arms of vomerine tooth patch; large dark spot at posterior corner of operculum; color pattern sexually dimorphic, male overall orange anteriorly and purplish grey posteriorly, female entirely purplish grey; neither sex with narrow white bar on head just behind eye (Ref. 31113).