This species grows up to eight centimetres total length. It is undoubtedly differentiated from every other cardinalfish by its tasseled first dorsal fin, elongate anal and second dorsal fin rays, acutely forked caudal fin, and redden copy consisting of three black bars across the top and bulk and prominent black front edges on the anal and second dorsal fin. The chap tin be differentiated from the female by a conspicuous enlarged oral cavity, which is seeming just after they are brooding.
This species is limited to the Banggai Islands of Indonesia.This species has an exceptionally partial geographic variety and minor count up inhabitants dimension . The Banggai cardinalfish is poised of inaccessible populations concentrated around the shallows of 17 chubby and 10 lesser islands contained by the Banggai Archipelago. A lesser populace plus occurs off Central Sulawesi, within Luwuk harbor. One further populace has happen to conventional in the Lembeh Strait, 400 km north of the likely district of the species distribution, next preamble by aquarium cast a line traders in 2000. Small populations seen in hush Bay, north west Bali.
