Author: (Bloch, 1793)
FBname: Two-lined monocle bream
Comments: Common on coral reefs.  Adults occur on most reef habitats, usually in pairs, and juveniles inshore or in lagoons or rubble zones (Ref. 48635).  Occurs singly or in small aggregations.  Feeds on small fishes and benthic invertebrates.  A protogynous hermaphrodite (Ref. 9785).  Juvenile mimics poison-fanged blenny <i>Miacanthus grammistes</i>, Batesian mimic (Ref. 90102). Caught mainly by handline and live specimens captured by hand net for the aquarium export trade; no major fishery exists (Ref. 9785). It is parasitised by the monogenean <i>Anoplodiscus hutsonae</i> on the pectoral fins and body surface (Ref. 124057).