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Scribbled leatherjacket filefish

Characteristics

  • Usually occurs singly.
  • Often associates with floating objects, such as buoys.
  • Feeds on benthic organisms, such as tunicates, sponges, algae and gorgonian.

Description

  • Body mottled or uniform olive brown or grey.
  • Body covered with irregular blue spots, blue lines and black spots. Able to
  • quickly change quickly color and markings rapidly.
  • A slender dorsal spine above eyes.
  • Caudal fin long.

Common Name: Scrawled filefish, Scribbled filefish, Scribbled leatherjacket filefish

Family Common Name: Filefishes

Family: Monacanthidae

Scientific Name: Aluterus scriptus___(Osbeck, 1765)

Genus: Aluterus

Maximum Length: Coming soon

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未評估
Not Evaluated (ne)
數據缺乏
Data Deficient (dd)
無危
Least Concern (lc)
近危
Near Threatened (nt)
易危
Vulnerable (vu)
瀕危
Endangered (en)
極危
Critically Endangered (cr)
絕滅
Extinct (ex)
Scribbled leatherjacket filefish

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