Author: (Boulenger, 1895)
FBname: Leather bass
Comments: A diurnal predator that feeds on small benthic fishes and occasionally on crustaceans.  Often it uses browsing herbivorous fishes as a moving blind in order to feed on the cryptic fauna disturbed by these browsers; it will also follow foraging moray eels to catch the fishes frightened from their hiding places.  Small juveniles have been seen hiding among the long spines of the dark-colored sea urchin, <i>Centrostephanus coronatus</i>.