It lives on the sandy seabed near reefs less than 100 meters deep, using its strong teeth and jaws to crush and eat hard-shelled creatures, including crustaceans, polychaetes such as sandworms, mollusks, and sea urchins.

The spawning period is from early summer to summer,

According to the "Search and Identification of All Fishes in Japan (Third Edition)", the distribution range of this species in the coastal waters of Japan is the Pacific coast from Aomori Prefecture to southern Kyushu, the Sea of Japan coast from Aomori Prefecture to southern Kyushu, and the Seto Inland Sea. In addition, overseas, this species is also distributed in the southern and eastern coasts of the Korean Peninsula, Ulleungdo Island, Jeju Island, Taiwan, Liaoning Province, Yantai City, Shandong Province, the outer waters of the Yangtze River Estuary, Fujian Province, Hong Kong, and the northern end of the Philippine Islands.