Barred Hamlet - Hypoplectrus Puella
The barred hamlet has a pale yellowish to tan head and body marked with as many as seven dark brown vertical bars, which vary in number, darkness, and length. The large pelvic fins vary from yellow to dark bluish-brown, and thin iridescent blue lines may appear on the head. It is the most widespread barred species and differs from the closely related H. floridae, H. ecosur, and H. liberte by lacking the symmetrical paired tail-base spots of floridae, the distinctive spot pattern of ecosur, and the horizontal striping of liberte. Unlike H. providencianus, it has no dark triangle through the eye.
Pale yellowish to tan head, dark brown vertical bars, yellow pelvic fins with blue margins, iridescent blue lines on the head, blue margin and yellow tint on front of dorsal fin, and yellow tail margins. Location: Little Water Cay, Belize
Tan head with brown vertical bars, yellow pelvic fins with blue margins, iridescent blue lines on the head, yellow tint front of dorsal fin. Location: St Vincent, Union Island, Chatham Bay North
Pale head, light brown vertical bars, yellow ventral fins, clear dorsal and tail fins, blue iridescent lines on head. Location: British Virgins Islands, The Indians
Pale head, dark brown vertical bars, solid yellow pelvic fins, clear dorsal fin with dark brown frontal tint, blue iridescent lines on head, yellow tint on lower part of body. Location: Cozumel, Palancar Caves
Tan head, clear tail fins, clear dorsal fin with frontal yellow tint, dark and light brown vertical bars, iridescent blue lines on head. Location: Dutchman's Reef, Tobago
Brown head and vertical bars, pelvic fins yellow tint with blue margins, clear tail, clear dorsal fin with brown frontal tint, iridescent blue lines on head. Location: Panama, Bocas del Toro, Hospital Point
Pale yellow to light brown head, dark brown and yellow vertical bars, yellow tint on bottom of body, yellow pelvic fins with blue margins, clear tail with yellow margins, dorsal fin tinted yellow with frontal brown tint, iridescent blue lines on head, anal fin yellow. Location: Dominica, Tougari Bay cave
Pale yellow to light tan head, dark and light brown bertical bars, solid blue pelvic fins, dorsal fin with yellow tint and brown frontal tint, clear tail with pale yellow margins, yellow tint on anal fin with frontal segment solid blue, iridescent blue lines on head. Location: Tobago, Dutchman's Reef
Dark tan and yellow head, Dark blue -black vertical bars, solid blue ventral fins, yellow tint pectoral fins, tail and dorsal fin, dorsal fin with frontal dark blue tint, yellow tint on bottom of body, anal fin yellow blue tint, with darker blue in front segments, iridescent blue lines on head. Location: Tobago, Flying Reef
Light tan and yellow head, Dark blue -black and brown vertical bars, solid blue ventral fins, yellow tint on pectoral fins, tail and on dorsal fin, dorsal fin with frontal dark blue, slight yellow tint on front bottom of body, anal fin yellow with light blue margin, iridescent blue lines on head. Location: Tobago, Mt. Irving Extension
Light tan head, pale upper body, light brown vertical bars with dark black-brown center bar, faded bars and yellow tint on lower part of body, clear tail, dorsal fin clear with blue margin, pelvic fins pale yellow with blue margins, iridescent blue lines on face. Location: Belize, Little Water Cay
Yellow and light brown head, blue-brown vertical bars above lower half of body that is yellow, yellow tail, yellow dorsal fin with blue margin and blue-brown frontal tint, pale yellow pelvic fins with blue margin, blue margin on anal fin, iridescent blue lines on head. Location: Bonaire, Bon Bini Nas Cas reef
Yellow and light tan head, pale brown vertical bars with dark spot at base of tail on upper body and yellow lower body, pale yellow pelvic fins with blue margins, clear dorsal fin and tail fin, clear anal fin with light blue tint along margin, iridescent blue lines on head. Location: St Vincent, Cumberland Buoy
This may be a hybrid between a Golden and Barred Hamlet. Head is yellow, vertical bars are blue-black, all fins are solid yellow, blue margins on pelvic and anal fins, dark blotch on front of dorsal fin, iridescent blue lines on head. Location: Tobago, Mageston Reef