Yellow female, Hanauma Bay, 25 feet

Yellow female, Macaw, Midway Atoll, 25 feet

Female, Wakatobi, Indonesia, 4 feet

Male, Hanauma Bay, 40 feet

Male, Sea Cave, Oahu, 50 feet

Juvenile

Female, Lana'i Lookout, Oahu, 30 feet

A skittish cylindrical species locally common on seaweed-covered reefs and rubble areas exposed to surge.  Females usually striped with brown or green, rarely all-yellow, males gray-brown with orange and black blotches behind the pectoral fins.  Feeds upon small fish and invertebrates.  Attains 20 inches.  Red Sea to Okinawa, Hawai'i, and French Polynesia.