Coral Croucher

Uniformly dark species that has smaller, but longer tubercles than C. maculatus and lacks a notch in the dorsal fin.Description: Characterized by having two small spines at lower anterior edge of lacrimal; depth of body about 1.8 in SL (Ref. 90102).

Dorsal spines (total): 7 - 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12 - 13; Analspines: 2; Analsoft rays: 11 - 12

Found inshore (Ref. 75154). Alpheid shrimps are particularly common in their diet because they also inhabit the interstices of living corals in great numbers (Ref. 275).

Found among branches of Stylophora mordax and certain Acropora corals (Ref. 9710). It never ventures outside the confines of the coral head where it swims between the branches foraging for other coral-dwelling types (Ref. 275). Anterolateral glandular groove with venom gland; at least in dorsal-fin spines (Ref. 57406).