El hove nhatu-muswe iyi hove diki, angangoita makumi maviri masentimita, akaomeswa muviri uye ane maziso mahombe. Iyo operculum ine matatu akati sandara mawere uye preopercle inozopedzeredzwa. Pane zviyero zviri pakati pemakumi matatu nemakumi matatu nepfumbamwe, zvehukuru hwakakura pamutsetse wekupedzisira, wakakwana uye unoperera panotangira muswe.
Kunze kwevano pectorals, zvimbi zvese zvakakura maererano nemuviri, sezvo dorsal fin ine yechitatu spiny radius yakakura kupfuura mamwe ese, uye mapini epamuviri akareba kwazvo, kunyanya muvanhurume.
Mboro ine makobhu akaratidzirwa, ezasi akareba kupfuura epamusoro. Ruvara rwemiswe mitatu iri pakati pepingi uye orenji, uye ine zvitatu zvakasiyana zveyero zvisungo parutivi rumwe neumwe rwemusoro, yekutanga inoyambuka ziso rehove uye mamwe maviri ari pazasi. Muvanhurume, iwo matipi ezvigunwe zvechiuno ndeyero, uye anotsvuka kana ave kupisa.
Mhando dze hove nhatu-muswe dzinogara pamakorari matombo, iri pakati pemakumi maviri uye anopfuura makumi mashanu emamita yakadzika, kunyangwe pano neapo inogona kuwanikwa pa20.Iyo yakarongedzwa mumabhangi ehuwandu hwehuwandu. Pedyo nepamusoro payo inogarawo mumapako kana maburi echimwe chinhu. Basa rayo rakakura panguva yorubvunzavaeni kupfuura pakati pezuva. Inodyisa zooplankton, epibenthic mhuka, uye hove diki.
Ndicho proterogynous hermaphrodite marudzi. Ikoko kunoratidzika kuve kune humwe hutongi pakati pevanhurume, zvirinani mumwaka wekubereka, apo kurwa kwakawanda kana kushoma kunoitwa pakati pavo kwakajairika. Inobereka muzhizha uye mazai ari planktonic.