The white cheek pendant can grow up, its maximum body length is 24cm. The body of the fish is yellow-brown to gray-brown on the whole, with a brown-black eye band on the head of the same width as the eye diameter, a wide white oblique band behind the eye bag, and a brown-black spot behind the oblique band. The pectoral fins are gray. Black.

The white-cheeked hangings are generally distributed in the coral reef waters of the western central Pacific Ocean. They are anti-equatorial fish species. Mainly feed on silk algae, inhabit coral reefs and rocky reefs in waters between 1 and 85 meters deep, usually in groups around rocks in surge areas.