Author: Fraser & Allen, 2006
FBname: Circular cardinalfish
Comments: A cryptic species seldom observed by divers, but are collected with ichthyocides, dredges and sleds.  Its collection data suggests that it frequents 10-40 m depth zone, in association with beds of a calcareous algae, <i>Halimeda</i> or calcareous rubble, sometimes mixed with the pocilloporid coral <i>Seriatopora hystrix</i> (Ref. 77037).