Animalia > Chordata > Tetraodontiformes > Monacanthidae > Monacanthus > Monacanthus chinensis

Monacanthus chinensis (fringed filefish; Filefish; Fan-belly leatherjacket; Fan-bellied leatherjacket; Fan-bellied leather jacket; Fan-bellied filefish; Centreboard leatherjacket; Leatherjacket; Centre board leatherjacket)

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Language: Bikol; Cebuano; Danish; Hiligaynon; Japanese; Malay; Mandarin Chinese; Tagalog; Thai; Visayan; Waray-waray

Wikipedia Abstract

Monacanthus chinensis, commonly known as the fan-bellied leatherjacket or fantail leatherjacket, is a species of filefish native to the western Pacific Ocean and the eastern Indian Ocean where it is found on reefs and soft sediments at shallow depths. This species grows to a total length of 40 centimetres (16 in).
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Prey / Diet

Enhalus acoroides (Species code: Ea)[1]
Posidonia australis (Species code: Pa)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Arothron immaculatus (Narrow-lined toadfish)1
Lactoria cornuta (horned boxfish)1
Siganus fuscescens (Spinefoot)1

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Eimeria rohdei <Unverified Name>[3]
Lepotrema cylindricum[4]
Taeniacanthus mcgroutheri[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Food habits of small fishes in seagrass habitats in Trang, southern Thailand, Masahiro Horinouchi, Prasert Tongnunui, Keisuke Furumitsu, Yohei Nakamura, Kouki Kanou, Atsuko Yamaguchi, Ken Okamoto, Mitsuhiko Sano, Fish Sci (2012) 78:577–587
♦ 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.
♦ 3Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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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