[2] The overall colour is pinkish to reddish with numerous very small whitish spots and large yellow blotches with yellowish fins.

In the day they hide mostly within the heads of corals in the genus Pocillopora, emerging at night to place themselves in a suitable site from which to ambush passing prey.

They are frequently encountered in pairs or as small groups with the individual fish being separated by 10 to 20 cm (3.9 to 7.9 in).

They feed on small fishes, crustaceans and zooplanktonic making short darts forward to capture prey and rarely leave the shelter of the reef to avoid predation.

They are probably oviparous, like other closely related scorpionfishes, with the females releasing the internally fertilised egg which float near the surface.