This eel-like looking fish has densely mottled dark grey and white skin. 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, close to shore (with juveniles in estuaries on sand and among seagrass), on the inner continental shelf to 60m, mainly in caves and under ledges. It is caught in small quantities, mainly off the south-eastern coast, by Rock Lobster pots, gillnets and Danish seines and is endemic to Australia.