Reddish to brown with pale blotches over body and tail, and tassles over face and body. One of a few Batrachoidid frogfishes encountered by divers searching crevices of reefs, but easily missed. Wounds from venomous spines are very painful.

• Max Size: 26 cm
• Sea Temperature Range: 21.6-31.7°C
• Depth: 1-20m
• Habitat: Coral Reef, Mangrove, 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: Solitary (1 per transect)
  Abundance is calculated as the average number of individuals recorded per RLS transect, where present.