Centropyge eibli is primarily greyish in colour and has thin, vertical wavy bars in rust along its flanks.

This pattern is similar to that of the juveniles of the Indian Ocean Mimic Surgeonfish Acanthurus tristis.

[4] Centropyge eibli is found in the eastern Indian Ocean from the Maldives and Sri Lanka to north-western Australia, and in Indonesia east as far as Flores.

[1] It occurs in shallow areas which have dense growth of coral in lagoons, the Seward reefs and sometimes in channels with tidal currents.

[5] Centropyge eibli Was first formally described in 1963 by the German ichthyologist Wolfgang Klausewitz (1922-2018) with the type locality given as Castle Bay, Tillanchong, Nicobar Islands.