[1] It is found in schools[3] over sandy substrates in coastal waters and the juveniles are frequently recorded in tidal pools.

[1] This species was first formally described in 1895 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Robert Earl Richardson, the type locality was given as La Paz, Baja California Sur.

[4] The specific name honours in Benjamin B. Redding (1824-1882), the politician who was the first Fish Commissioner of California.

The overall colour is silvery with orange or bronze diagonal stripes matching the orientation over of the scale rows.

[3] Although their biology is little known, it is accepted that they are night-feeding carnivores, preying on benthic crustaceans, echinoderms, small fish and molluscs.