Lesson's Thicklip

Adults of both are white with dark stripes and yellow lips or fins. Indian Ocean Oriental Sweetlips has six to twelve broad dark stripes that carry on over the belly, yellow fins with black spots and a yellow eye. Lesson's Thicklip has stripes only on the head and back -- four or five brown ones -- and a white, unstriped belly, with large brown spots on its fins and a black spot at the base of the pectoral fin.

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