Collected from Socotra Island and from Abd al-Kuri Island (including the rock islets of Kal Farun north of it), but has not been recroded from Darsa and Semha. Mainly recorded from the north coasts from hard coral communities including those dominated by Millepora and Porites, and encrusting and massive Agariciidae, Pectiniidae, and Mussidae, as well as from mixed communities of macroalgae and hard corals on rock platform and mixed encrusting communities on exposed rock platform, and a near vertical rocky drop off (Ref. 88695).