Author: Lubbock, 1975
FBname: Schooling dottyback
Comments: Inhabits rock and coralline ledges and caves (Ref. 9710).  In Socotra Archipelago, it is mainly recorded from the north coasts from hard coral communities including those dominated by <i>Millepora</i> and <i>Porites</i>, and encrusting and massive Agariciidae, Pectiniidae, and Mussidae, as well as from mixed communities of macroalgae and hard corals on rock platform and mixed encrusting communities on exposed rock platform, and a near vertical rocky drop off (Ref. 88695). Occurs in colonies.  Has been reared in captivity (Ref. 35413).