Small fish, color varies from olive brown and golden to velvet black. Small cirri or tufts above eye that branch at base.
Face can often have small reddish polka dots and darker cheekbone line as well.
Found in tricky tidepools to a max. Crevices are important for these fish as they will perch themselves at the opening of a shell or a crevice. They act as both predators and prey. Females will lay as many as 2,300 purplish eggs per spawning and will spawn 3 or 4 times each spring. Males will fertilize the eggs and then care for them until they hatch 4-18 days later, hatching is temperature dependent.