Symphorus nematophorus

• adult fish are mottled pink and red, forming indistinct vertical bars
• small adults and juveniles have horizontal blue stripes on the body and elongated spines on the soft dorsal fin, growing to long filaments
• a deep elongated pit between the eye and nostril
  

• most tropical snappers and seaperches are easy to identify by their adult colouration
• most have strong spinous dorsal fins and a more-or-less continuous dorsal fin which may be slightly notched between the spinous and soft parts
• they are carnivores and typically feed at night
• some species are known ciguatoxin carriers
• jobfishes are a subset of this family and include all species of the genera Aphareus, Aprion, Etelis, Parapristipomoides and Pristipomoides