[3] The specific name, gibbus means "humpbacked", a reference to high, steep dorsal profile on the head of the adults.

[4] Humpback red snapper has a body which is relatively with a standard length which is 2.2 to 2.5 times its depth, with a head which has a very steeply sloped forehead a well developed known and notch in the preoperculum.

There is an orange tint on the lower part of gill cover and on the axil of the pectoral fin.

It ranges from the eastern African coast and the Red Sea to the Society and Line islands and from Australia in the south to southern Japan in the north.

The juveniles shelter in beds of sea grass in protected areas of Sandy and muddy substrates, while the aggregations are dominated by subadults.

[1] The humpback red snapper feeds on fishes and invertebrates, such as shrimps, crabs, lobsters, stomatopods, cephalopods, echinoderms and ophiuroids.