Taken on the reef in Miladumadulu and dredged in Suvadiva and South Nilandu Atolls, in 19—38 fathoms. One of the South Nilandu specimens is noted to have come from a block of Pocillopora. Neither this nor the species akin to it seem suited to an exposed life.
(L.A. Borrodaile, 1902, pg. 256)
