Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; demersal. Tropical
Western Pacific: northwestern Australia (Ref. 5978) and Papua New Guinea.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Ventral surface of lower jaw smooth, no prickles or papillose villi. Mandibular cirri almost confined to outer margin. Snout with large, fleshy, and extensively branched cirri; those in larger patches on tip of snout and across lachrymal bone large while those in smaller patches on nasal bone are smaller. Fleshy pad on isthmus with its width about 0.5 to 0.75 of its length (Ref. 39602).
Found inshore, in soft bottom (Ref. 75154).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Kailola, P.J., 1987. The fishes of Papua New Guinea: a revised and annotated checklist. Vol. II Scorpaenidae to Callionymidae. Research Bulletin No. 41, Research Section, Dept. of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Papua New Guinea. (Ref. 6192)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 24.3 - 28.6, mean 27.2 °C (based on 302 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5078 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00537 (0.00215 - 0.01342), b=3.14 (2.92 - 3.36), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.4 ±0.3 se; based on size and trophs of closest relatives
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
