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Figure 20. Serranus pulcher from Principe Island. Photograph by by Luiz Rocha. 
Figure 21. Serranus pulcher. A different-colored morph from Principe Island. Photograph by Luiz Rocha. 
white stripes, the dorsum with broad brownish patches between white patches, and the ventral 
aspects of the body a solid dark red. 
In a photograph (Fig. 21) of an individual from Principe, ground color orange with bold white 
stripes bordering a dark midlateral stripe that originates behind eye and extends to base of caudal 
fin; top of head, suborbital region, and snout dark gray with orange spots and vermiculations. In 
preserved specimens < 40 mm SL, midlateral stripe most prominent and other markings rather 
obscure. This color morph appears to predominate in Principe, where the species is quite common 
(Luiz Rocha, pers. comm. 2015). 
Size: To 9 cm TL. 
Habitat and distribution.— Hard bottoms (rock, gravel, coral rubble, or marl) from about 
1 m depth (juveniles) to at least 30 m. Sao Tome e Principe, off Ghana and Gabon, and probably 
more widely along Gulf of Guinea mainland. 
Specimens examined (9 spec.). — Sao Tome e Principe: CAS 227754 (4,37.2-60.2 mm SL); 
