[3] This species has a whitish body with four large ovate brown spots along the midside, five or six diagonal yellow-orange bands on the first dorsal fin, a prominent narrow dark stripe along the middle, and a yellow outer margin on the second dorsal fin.

Endemic to Lady Elliot Island at the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef.

[1] Found at depths of 15–24 meters, inhabiting relatively flat, sandy bottoms exposed to periodic strong tidal currents, this species shares burrows with alpheid snapping shrimps, where the fish act as lookouts to warn the shrimp of predators.

In terms of social structure, most individuals are solitary though about 20% of burrows have pairs of shrimpgobies guarding the entrance.

The Lady Elliot shrimp goby is omnivorous: feeding on small invertebrates and algae.