This species is widely distributed (from Senegal to Angola, including most offshore islands - Macias Nguema, São Tomé, and Principe island) and with no major widespread threats. The species can be listed as Least Concern.

Western Africa distribution: This species living brackish water long coasts of Senegal to Cameroon, occasionally out of fresh waters, but always close to the coasts.

Global distribution: Senegal to Angola, including most offshore islands - Macias Nguema, São Tomé, and Principe island.

No available data.

Amphidromous, reef-associated fish that lives in freshwater or brackish water. Amphibious air-breather that skips or walks on sand or mud in search of food; that is, on exposed intertidal mud flats of estuarine mangrove swamps. Feeds chiefly on arthropods (crabs, insects, etc.) of the mud surface. Also included in the diet is the white mangrove, Avicennia nitida. Spawns in burrows.

None known

Probably taken by individual hunting but of no commercial importance as of the present.

None known.