Barred Soapfish

Barred Soapfish Art on Canvas in a Yellow Bijou Frame. The Barred Soapfish or Two-banded soapfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish, related to the groupers, and are widespread throughout the tropical waters of the Indo-West Pacific region. Soap Fish get its name from toxins that, when released from their skin, resemble lathered soap. The color of this species normally ranges from pale yellow or greyish-yellow to bright yellow with a dark bar which runs through the eye and another wider dark band on the posterior part of its body with yellow fins. The larger fishes can be nearly all black with yellow fins. The small juveniles are bluish in color on the anterior part of their bodies and yellow on the posterior part, they also have a spiny part of the dorsal fin colored black. This species attains a maximum total length of 25 centimetres (9.8 in). If you are an Ichthyologist (Fish Biologist) we are open to your suggestions about how you would improve this description.