Broom-tail FileAluterus scriptus

Facts

Broomtail Filefish, Filefish, Scrawled Fiiefish, Scrawled Filefish, Scrawled Leatherjacket, Scrawled Tilefish, Scribbled Filefish, Scribbled Fish, Scribbled Leather Jacket, Scribbled Leatherjacket, Scribbled Leatherjacket Filefi, Scrolled Filefish, Tobaccofish

Circumtropical. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil (Ref. 7251). Eastern Atlantic: St. Paul"quot;s Rocks (Ref. 13121), Cape Verde and Ascension Island (Ref. 3592); São Tomé Island (Ref. 34088); South Africa (Ref. 4421). Pacific Ocean: southern Japan to the southern Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia and Easter Island (Ref. 37816). In the eastern Pacific, from the Gulf of California to Colombia (Ref. 9318).

saltwater

Aluterus

Monacanthidae

Tetraodontiformes

Actinopterygii

Chordata

Animalia

source: FishBase

Description

The scrawled filefish, Aluterus scriptus, is a filefish of the family Monacanthidae. Its length is up to 1.1 m, and it is found on tropical reefs circumglobally to a depth of 120 m.

Image:Aluterus scriptus 600.jpgImage:A_scriptus.jpg|Mature specimen at Honolulu HarborImage:Scribbled filefish2.jpg|at Kona
source: Wikipedia

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