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Monacanthidae
leatherjacket
Aluterus monoceros
Young drift with flotsam before settling over sand
- Tropical
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Large
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Deep-bodied
Largeleatherjacket is known around Circumtropical as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 76.2 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Aluterus
- Maximum length
- 76.2 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Circumtropical. Western Atlantic: Massachusetts, USA to Argentina (Ref. 36453 ). Eastern Atlantic: west coast of tropical Africa (Ref. 3592 ). Eastern Pacific: Guatemala to Chile (Ref. 9068 ); probably in Mexico (Ref. 9318 ). Western Indian Ocean: Mozambique and South Africa (Ref. 4421 ). Recorded from La Reunion (Ref. 53568 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
