Author: (Sauvage, 1883)
Comments: Lives in close association with long-spined sea urchins or branching corals of sheltered reefs (Ref. 9710).  Juvenile fish eat pedicellariae and sphaeridia of the host <i>Diadema</i> and commensal copepods; adult fish eat burrowing bivalves in corals as well as tube feet of their host and eggs of a commercial shrimp (Ref. 33619).