Author: Jaafar & Randall, 2009
Comments: Collected in 1974 and 1975 at a depth of 15 m on a sand substratum with patches of the invasive seagrass <i>Halophila stipylacea</i> and occasional small coral heads; in 1986, at 33.5 m, where the substrate consisted of coarse sand and gravel.  This species was observed to live in symbiotic association with an alpheid shrimp, but the shrimp was neither collected nor photographed (Ref. 82599).