| Smooth leatherjacket | |
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| Family: | Monacanthidae |
| Genus: | Meuschenia |
| Species: | M. scaber |
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| Meuschenia scaber (J. R. Forster, 1801) | |
The smooth leatherjacket or velvet leatherjacket, Meuschenia scaber, is a filefish of the family Monacanthidae, found off eastern Australia and all around New Zealand to depths of about 100 m, on rocky weedy reef areas. Its length is between 25 and 35 cm. In New Zealand it is simply known as leatherjacket as it is the only fish of this family commonly found there.
Distribution
Cape Naturaliste, Western Australia, to Sydney, New South Wales, and around Tasmania. Also New Zealand.[1]
See also
- Leather jack
References
- ^ Edgar, Graham J. (2008). Australian Marine Life: The plants and animals of temperate waters (Second ed.). Sydney: New Holland. ISBN 9781921517174.
- "Meuschenia scaber". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 19 March 2006.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Meuschenia scaber" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8