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Common around coral heads on hard sandstone bottom, in seagrass beds or on fine sediment bottoms near rocky reefs and dead coral at a depth range 6 - 200 m in the Indo-Pacific: Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and western Indian Ocean, south to Natal, South Africa; eastward to Fiji, north to Japan, south to the Arafura Sea and northern Australia. Of moderate interest to fisheries; hook-and-line and bottom longline Usually found Juveniles are common at water depths to 80 m. Feed on fish and benthic invertebrates, primarily prawns and crabs Reaches a maximum length to 15 inches.
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