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Description Colour in life: the spiny disc white with large dark purple spots outlined with white, both basal and ventral arm plates with a distal V-shaped white band superimposed on dark purple, oral shields outlined white with a central labyrinthine purple design (Sloan et al., 1979).
Also distributed in East Indies, north Australia, China, south Japan and South Pacific Is.(Clark & Rowe, 1971); Australia (Rowe & Gates, 1995).
Ecology: benthic, inshore. General distribution: tropical, Indo-west-central Pacific Ocean, littoral waters (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
Holotype Holotype in Zoologisches Museum für Hamburg, Hamburg (Germany) E.2085. Type locality: Fiji (Rowe & Gates, 1995). [details]
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