Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Christmas and Cocos-Keeling islands and Indonesia east to Fiji, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands, south to New South Wales (Australia) and New Caledonia. Lives in pairs around Acropora corals, 1 – 20 m depth. Marine.
Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
