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Freycinet's leatherjacket
Meuschenia freycineti
- Saltwater
- Least Concern
- Max length
- 60 cm
Classification
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Meuschenia
Distribution
- Indian Ocean, Eastern
- Pacific, Southwest
About the freycinet's leatherjacket
Meuschenia freycineti, commonly called the sixspine leatherjacket. Other names include, Freycinet's leatherjacket, grey leatherjacket, orange-spotted leatherjacket, reef leatherjacket, six-spine leatherjacket, six-spined leatherjacket, Skottowe's leatherjacket and variable leatherjacket. It grows to a length of about 60 cm (24 in). It is a filefish.
Distribution
It is endemic to temperate waters of southern Australia.
Description from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA.
Where the freycinet's leatherjacket lives
Distribution data from GBIF (DOI: 10.15468/dl.8rzs8d).
Also known as
- Grey leatherjacket
- Orange-spotted leatherjacket
- Reef leatherjacket
- Six-spine leatherjacket
- Six-spined leatherjacket
- Skottowe's leatherjacket
- Variable leatherjacket
- 斑頭似馬面單棘魨
