[3] However, this taxon was not reported subsequently and a re-examination of the holotype in 2010 showed that this was the same species as the widely distributed Sebastella littoralis which had been described in 1917 by the Japanese ichthyologist Shigeho Tanaka, also from Misaki, and that this taxon should be placed in the genus Scorpaenodes, with S. littoralis being a junior synonym of S.

[1] The specific name evides means "pretty", the authors did not explain their choice of name.

The body is moderately deep, its depth being smaller than the length of the head.

[4] This species colour is brownish to pink or reddish with a dark blotch on the ventral part of the operculumthe fins have red spots and there are leaf-like skin flaps on the head.

[2] Scoraenodes evides has a wide Indo-Pacific distribution.In Africa it is found on the eastern coast of South Africa and in the Red Sea, through the Indian and Pacific Oceans as far east as Easter Island and Hawaii.