Distribution & Ecology: Society (Moorea, Tahiti); Tuamotu (Raroia) - Marine; Shoreline to 10 m; ?Hard bottom; ?Coral facultative associate.

Regional Records: Actaea garretti Rathbun, 1906: 852, pl. 9, fig. 8 (Society). - Actaea rufopunctata - Holthuis, 1953: 11 (Raroia). - Morrison, 1954: 16 (Raroia). - Forest & Guinot, 1961: 79, fig. 79a-b (Tahiti) - All, not Paractaea rufopunctata (H. Milne Edwards, 1834) = Paractaea retusa form hippocrepica nov. in Guinot (1969: 256). - Paractaea retusa form hippocrepica - Guinot, 1969: 256, fig. 30 (Tahiti, Raroia; Syn.); 1985: 451 (List). - Peyrot-Clausade, 1989: 115 (Moorea). - Paractaea retusa - Monteforte, 1984: 171, annex 1, tab. a; 1987: 9 (Moorea). - Poupin, 1996a: 43 (Checklist). - Remark: Guinot (1969: 255), when creating the new genus Paractaea, has examined the syntype of garretti from the Gilbert's islands (but not the specimen from the Society), and considers that Rathbun's species belongs to Paractaea retusa (Nobili) form garretti (Rathbun).