Juveniles, Kahe Point, Oahu, 25 feet

Fish Hole, Midway, 30 feet

Dark phase, Cargo pier, Midway, 20 feet

Fish Hole, Midway, 30 feet

Fish Hole, Midway, 30 feet

East Lagoon, Midway, 6 feet

Kaka'ako, Oahu, 45 feet

Kahe Point, Oahu, 25 feet

Kahe Point, Oahu, 25 feet

Night, Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 4 feet

Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 3 feet

Honokohau, Hawaii, 30 feet

Hanauma Bay, Oahu, 25 feet

Juvenile, Ho'okena, Hawaii, 30 feet

Cargo Pier, Midway Atoll, 20 feet

An aggregating species locally common on sandy reefs at any depth, where it rests by day and forages alone over sand at night.  Body pale pink to rose with an unmarked yellow stripe, yellow fins, and large eyes with a red iris.  Night coloration is mottled pink and gray or rose.  A commercially important species that has been displaced by the invasive Bluestripe Snapper.  Also known locally as Red weke.  Attains 15 inches.  Hawai‘i and the Indo-Pacific.  Very similar to Mulloidichthys dentatus of the Tropical Eastern Pacific and Mulloidichthys martinicus of the Tropical Western Atlantic.  Formerly known as Mulloidichthys auriflamma.