This animal was the first of this species known from the Marshalls and was found under a loose colony of its prey coral Porites lobata and subsequently crawled about on the living coral after being exposed to light. The specimen was on a Kwajalein Atoll lagoon pinnacle at a depth of about 6m on 5 January 2009.
On 19 October 2009, six more specimens, including one tiny juvenile (just right of the right hand specimen in the first shot below), were found under two separate loose, fist-sized chunks of living Porites coral in a field of rubble on sand on a Kwajalein Atoll lagoon reef at a depth of about 8m. Both groups of three were with a clutch of eggs.
Created 17 January 2009
Updated 30 October 2009
