Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Monacanthidae > Pervagor > Pervagor melanocephalus

Pervagor melanocephalus (Redtail filefish; Lace-finned leatherjacket; Black-headed leatherjacket; Blackheaded filefish; Black-head filefish; Blackhead filefish)

Synonyms: Acreichthys melanocephalus; Monacanthus melanocephalus; Pervagor melanocephalus melanocephalus; Stephanolepis melanocephalus
Language: Afrikaans; Carolinian; Danish; Fijian; Japanese; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Samoan; Visayan

Wikipedia Abstract

Pervagor melanocephalus is a Filefish from the Indo-West Pacific. It occasionally makes its way into the aquarium trade. It grows to a size of 16 cm in length.
View Wikipedia Record: Pervagor melanocephalus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Christmas Island National Park II 21698 Christmas Island, Australia

Predators

Plectropomus leopardus (bluedotted coraltrout)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Taeniacanthus brayae[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
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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