Available wild caught, it is a bottom-dwelling marine fish found mainly on the continental shelf and upper slope commonly between 50-200m and caught mainly as bycatch of inshore trawling and Danish seines off the south-eastern coast of NSW and Victoria, with some off Tasmania, SA and southern WA. Its skin is silvery-pink and, unlike some other Dories, rough to touch; it also has a more elongated body than most other dories. It is endemic to Australia.