Description
provided by World Register of Marine Species
Colour in life: black, red ring around anus and white spot over each genital pore (Humphreys, 1981). One specimen with eight parastic eulimid gastropods Echineulima mittrei mittrei (Petit, 1851). Also distributed in Saudi Arabia (Clark, 1954); Australia (Kalk (1958) and Rowe & Gates (1995)); SE Arabia, Persian Gulf, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); India (Sastry, 1996). General distribution: tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958); tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-70 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
4. Paxton, J.R. and Eschmeyer, W.N. (1994)
Encylopedia of Fishes. UNSW Press, Sydney.
- license
- cc-by-4.0
- copyright
- WoRMS Editorial Board
