[4] Male orange wrasses are red-brown and have black-and-white squares beneath the rays of their dorsal fin.

[4] Females and juveniles are also facultative cleaners, although they rely less on cleaning for food, and more on benthic feeding.

[3] These fishes form pairs during breeding and are oviparous, meaning that their eggs hatch after being laid.

[5] Females spawn eggs from March to October, and the surviving offspring will mature after a year.

Orange wrasses are also protogynous hermaphrodites, so the females change sex into males.