Taylor's garden-eel is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 48 cm.

[3] The species is widespread throughout the tropical waters of the western central Indo-Pacific from the Philippines to Papua-New-Guinea and Indonesia.

[1][4] It lives solitary or in small colonies on sandy bottoms in association with seagrass meadows, at depths between 5 and 15  m deep.

Fertilized eggs and juveniles have a planktonic period before reaching sufficient size to start living in the substrate.

[2] The IUCN redlist currently lists Taylor's garden eel as Data Deficient, due to a lack of information on the population statistics.