Author: (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)
FBname: Ghost cardinalfish
Comments: Common in reef flats and shallow lagoons, but hiding by day within <i>Acropora</i> thickets and other corals, as well as in holes and crevices and emerging at night to forage on free-swimming invertebrates (Ref. 1602).  Also found in sheltered seaward slopes in 1-20 m (Ref 90102).  Feeds on small fishes and benthic invertebrates (e.g. shrimps - alpheids and penaieds; isopods, copepods, crab larvae, polychaete worms); relatively close to cover, within about 1-2 m (Ref. 11890).