Description
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Occurs in subtidal reef flats and lagoon and seaward reefs to depths of at least 20 m. Large spine at the corner of preopercle is venomous. Feeds mainly on benthic crabs and shrimps.
- license
- cc-by-4.0
- copyright
- WoRMS Editorial Board
- bibliographic citation
- Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2019). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (02/2019).
- contributor
- Edward Vanden Berghe [email]
