Indo-Pacific: Red Sea to Samoa, north to the Yaeyama Islands, south to the Great Barrier Reef; throughout Micronesia.

Differs from A. wheeleri by having dull brown bars and more lateral scale rows.

Inhabits sandy areas of outer lagoon and seaward reefs. Lives with a pale brown or marbled brown and white alpheid shrimp. Found in coastal sand slopes and estuaries and usually at modrate depth of about 20 meters on deeper slopes