Available wild caught, it is a bottom-dwelling fish with elongated body and 4-5 filaments below the side fin, which it uses to detect food, such as small crabs, prawns and worms in the mud. Found mostly in very shallow water along the coast, in muddy bays, estuaries and rivers of tropical Australia from Fraser Island to west of Darwin and occasionally in freshwater.
Caught mainly by gillnets in the Gulf of Carpentaria, it is an important bycatch of Barramundi fishing.