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Figure 18. Serranus pulcher from Sao Tome Island showing color pattern on chin and throat. Photo by Peter Wirtz. 
Figure19. Serranus pulcher A freshly collected specimen (paratype, CAS 227758, 36.3 mm SL) from Santana Islet, 
Sao Tome. Photograph by David Catania. 
Santana), brownish color of sides of head interrupted by four or five thin, horizontal to slightly 
diagonal, reddish to orange lines; orange spots scattered on top of head and on snout. Vertical bands 
on body with dark squarish blocks mid-laterally. Anal and soft dorsal fins dark; spinous dorsal paler 
with red spots at base where body bands meet fin; tips of spines red. Ivory-white of gular and 
branchiostegal membranes, interopercle, and chest bordered by prominent dark-red streaks. Pelvic 
fins overall clear to light dusky with brownish-yellow rays. 
A fish from Principe (Fig. 20) shows a prominent, broad, brownish-red, broken midlateral 
stripe extending from midorbit to middle of caudal fin, bordered above and below by irregular 
