Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 2. — General distribution: Red Sea, East Africa and KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) east to Line and Society islands, south to New Caledonia. Benthic, reef-associated, lives in holothurians, 1 – 62 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