The second dorsal fin has an ocellate (eye like) black blotch and the anal fin has about 11 dark streaks, the pelvic fin black at the bottom, with yellowish rays and brown spots, and the dorsal fin spines densely covered with small spinules.

Associated with red coralline gravel and shell substrates. At depths from 14 to over 180m,

predator

Fricke, R., 1994. Tripterygiid fishes of Australia, New Zealand and the southwest Pacific Ocean (Teleostei). Theses Zool. 24:1-585.