Author: Rüppell, 1835
FBname: Highcrest triplefin
Comments: Known from inshore continental waters (Ref. 12476).  Adults inhabit bays and sheltered lagoons, close to reef base, on a silty sand or mud substrate, often on stones and dead corals of the same color.  Eggs are hemispherical and covered with numerous sticky threads that anchor them in the algae on the nesting sites (Ref. 240).  Larvae are planktonic which occur primarily in shallow, nearshore waters (Ref. 94114).  This is the  first tripterygiid that has been described from the Red Sea (Ref. 88983).