Indo-Pacific: Red Sea and Mozambique Island to Samoa and Tonga, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to New Caledonia; throughout Micronesia.

Semi-transparent to whitish in color with blue spots and incomplete, narrow, orange bars on head and anterior part of body.

Dense aggregations (often mixed with other species, like Archamia fucata, A. zosterophora are found above mounds of branching corals (Porites cylindrica and P. andrewsi) in sheltered, often turbid bays and lagoons.