Sealife guideThe slender filefishMonacanthus tuckeri
Taxonomy
- Common name: Slender filefish
- French name: Bourse élancée, poisson lime élancé
- Spanish name: Lija reticulada
- Scientific name: Monacanthus tuckeri (Bean, 1906)
- Family name: Monacanthidae
- Order name: Tetraodontiformes
- Class name: Actinopterygii
Range
Le poisson lime élancé ou bourse élancée fréquente les eaux chaudes de l'Atlantique nord-ouest ainsi que celles du Golfe du Mexique.
Did you know ?
The slender filefish is listed as many other marine species within The
IUCN Red List of threatened species. The slender filefish appears in the
IUCN Red List since 2015 within the category Least Concern !
Within the same family
Planehead filefish
(Stephanolepis hispidus)
Orange spotted filefish
(Oxymonacanthus longirostris)
Scrawled filefish
(Aluterus scriptus)
Taylor's pygmy leatherjacket
(Brachaluteres taylori)
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(Ocyurus chrysurus)
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