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Diagnosis. A species of Stolephorus with the following combination of characters: 1 UGR 17 – 19 (modally 18), 1 LGR 23 – 26 (24), 1 TGR 41 – 44 (42); 2 UGR 11 – 13 (13), 2 LGR 21 – 23 (22), 2 TGR 32 – 35 (35); 3 UGR 9 – 12 (11), 3 LGR 11 – 13 (12), 3 TGR 21 – 25 (23); 4 UGR 8 – 11 (9), 4 LGR 9 – 11 (11), 4 TGR 17 – 22 (20); prepelvic scutes 4 – 6 (6); scale rows in longitudinal series 36 – 41 (41); transverse scales 8; pseudobranchial filaments 24 – 36 (28); vertebrae 41; paired dark patches on parietal and occipital regions; no double lines on dorsum; a few black spots on suborbital area and tip of lower jaw; predorsal scute absent; no spine on pelvic scute; posterior margin of preopercle rounded, not indented; maxilla comparatively short, 17.9 – 20.4 % of SL (mean 19.2 %), its posterior tip not reaching to posterior margin of preopercle; lower jaw comparatively short, 15.1 – 17.5 % of SL (16.6 %); short anal-fin base 12.9 – 16.9 % of SL (14.9 %); long caudal peduncle, 20.3 – 23.4 % of SL (21.8 %).