Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: Red Sea and East Africa, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Indonesia and New Guinea, south to Queensland (Australia) and New Caledonia. Found on sand near patch reefs, in burrows with alpheid shrimps, 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
