Description
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Colour in life: deep red unlike Aldabra specimens which are green (Humphreys, 1981). Also recorded from 'Coin Peros' by Bell (1909) - locality can't be traced; SE Arabia, Maldive area, Ceylon, Bay of Bengal, East Indies, north Australia, Philippine, China, south Japan, South Pacific Is. and Hawaiian Is. (Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Marshall islands and Tuamotus (Clark, 1954); Lakshadweeo (India) in Sastry (1991). General distribution: from East Africa to Hawaii (Tortonese, 1980); tropical, Indo-Pacific Ocean, depth range 0-120 m. (Rowe & Gates, 1995); Western Atlantic and East coast of Africa to Hawaiian Islands (Sastry, 1991). Ecology: benthic, inshore, continental shelf, deposit feeder (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
4. Paxton, J.R. and Eschmeyer, W.N. (1994)
Encylopedia of Fishes. UNSW Press, Sydney.
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