High silvery body with a relatively steep head profile and a pointed snout. Scales on upper sides with blue spots, creating rows of spots along body, and tail with a narrow dark margin. Generally found over sandy bottoms and the edges of rocky reefs, with the young found in very shallow waters on reef flats and in bays with mixed sand and rubble bottoms.

• Max Size: 61 cm
• Sea Temperature Range: 15.9-29.6°C
• Depth: 3-80m
• Habitat: Coral Reef, Rocky Reef, Soft sediment

• IUCN Threat Status: Not Evaluated
• Occurrence: Infrequent (5% of sites)
  Occurrence describes how often the species is found on surveys within its distribution. It is calculated as the % of reef sites surveyed by RLS divers across all the ecoregions in which the species has been observed
• Abundance: Several (7 per transect)
  Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.