#monacanthidae

[herpsandbirds]

Blacksaddle Filefish (Paraluteres prionurus), T/Mid - adults, B - juvenile, family Monacantidae, order Tetraodontiformes, found in much of the Indo-Pacific

T/M - Adults reach a max length of 11 cm.

B - This juvenile is about 1.5 cm.

photos: Sonja Ooms, Jens Petersen & Fadil Tally

[wonder-rooms]

Filefish, Brachaluteres (1801) - Ferdinand Bauer

[nature-and-biodiversity-blog]

Orange Spotted Filefish Oxymonacanthus longirostris

[dendroica]

A spiny-tailed leatherjacket male at Kangaroo Island in the Great Australian Bight. Greenpeace worked with scientists, divers and the crew of the Rainbow Warrior to research the mysterious Great Southern Reef, a little-known cold water reef off the southern coast of Australia. The Rainbow Warrior is in Australia as part of the Making Oil History tour to investigate, document and showcase the Great Australian Bight

Photograph: Richard Robinson/Greenpeace

(via The week in wildlife - in pictures | Environment | The Guardian)

[the-mists-of-time]

[herpsandbirds]

Orange-spotted Filefish or Harlequin Filefish (Oxymonacanthus longirostris), family Monacanthidae, order Tetraodontiformes, American Samoa

photographs via: NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program

[herpsandbirds]

Southern Pygmy Leatherjacket (Brachaluteres jacksonianus), family Monacanthidae, endemic to the seas off of Southern Australia

photograph by Richard Ling 

[herpsandbirds]

Japanese Inflator Filefish (Brachaluteres ulvarum), family Monacathidae, endemic to the seas of Southern Japan

photograph by Izuzuki