🦋 Family

Monacanthidae

28 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Tetraodontiformes › Monacanthidae

Pervagor spilosoma, the fantail filefish, is a spotted Eastern Pacific filefish that is rarely kept in home aquariums.

The blackbar filefish (Pervagor janthinosoma) is a Monacanthidae fish found in the tropical Indo-Pacific.

Pseudomonacanthus macrurus, the strap-weed filefish, is a small 18 cm filefish found in pairs in Indo-Pacific shallow reefs and estuaries.

Rough leatherjacket (Scobinichthys granulatus) is a southern Australian filefish, the only member of its monotypic genus.

Related Families

Tetraodontidae 52 species Balistidae 28 species Ostraciidae 16 species Diodontidae 13 species Aracanidae 5 species Molidae 2 species

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