Monacanthidae

dotterel filefish

Aluterus heudelotii

A deep body across both Atlantic shores

• Purple
• Tropical
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Africa
• North America
• South America
• Deep-bodied
• Medium
• Tropical fish

Aluterus heudelotii, the dotterel filefish or dottered filefish, is a filefish of the family Monacanthidae. It is found in the western Atlantic from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico and along the Caribbean coast of South America to northeast Brazil, and in the eastern Atlantic from Mauritania and Senegal to southern Angola. It is named after Jean-Pierre Heudelot.