This eel-like looking fish has mottled orangey-pink skin (fish from deeper waters tending to be more pink than orange).

Available wild-caught, it is a bottom-dwelling marine fish found along the southern coast of Australia, from Perth to Port Macquarie including Bass Strait and around Tasmania, in open waters on the continental shelf and upper slopes to 800m, often buried in holes on soft bottoms. It is mainly caught off the south-eastern coast by trawlers, as well as using bottom-set longlines, mesh nets, traps and droplines.