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Meuschenia scaber (Velvet leatherjacket; Smooth leatherjacket; Scaber leatherjacket; Creamfish; Cosmopolitan leatherjacket)

Synonyms: Balistes scaber; Cantherhines scaber; Cantherines setosus; Monacanthus setosus; Parika scaber
Language: French; Mandarin Chinese; Maori

Wikipedia Abstract

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.
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Prey / Diet

Cliona celata (yellow boring sponge)[1]
Didemnum candidum[1]
Spongia reticulata[1]

Predators

Zeus faber (European john dory)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1B. C. Russell (1983): The food and feeding habits of rocky reef fish of north‐eastern New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 17:2, 121-145
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0