Author: (Osbeck, 1765)
FBname: Fan-bellied leatherjacket
Comments: Inhabits estuaries and on coastal and offshore reefs (Ref. 9563); also on weed bottoms and on trawling grounds.  Found on muddy or silty substrates (Ref. 48637).  Is an omnivore which feeds mainly on seagrass, algae, gammarid amphipods and caridean shrimps as well as on bryozoans, hydroids, ascidians, copepods, caprellid amphipods and tanaidaceans (Ref. 13426).