Monacanthus chinensis Fanbellied Leatherjacket, Fan-bellied Leatherjacket, Fan-bellied Leather-jacket, Fan-belly Leatherjacket, Fantail Leatherjacket, Fan-tailed Leatherjacket, Pigfish , Fanbelly Leatherjacket

Monacanthus chinensisis commonly referred to as Fanbellied Leatherjacket, Fan-bellied Leatherjacket, Fan-bellied Leather-jacket, Fan-belly Leatherjacket, Fantail Leatherjacket, Fan-tailed Leatherjacket, Pigfish , Fanbelly Leatherjacket. Difficulty in the aquarium: Average. A aquarium size of at least 1500 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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Foto: Ship Rock, Victoria, Australien

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lexID:: 3369
AphiaID:: 276256

Scientific:: Monacanthus chinensis
German:: Feilenfisch
English:: Fanbellied Leatherjacket, Fan-bellied Leatherjacket, Fan-bellied Leather-jacket, Fan-belly Leatherjacket, Fantail Leatherjacket, Fan-tailed Leatherjacket, Pigfish , Fanbelly Leatherjacket

Category:: Filefishes

Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Monacanthidae (Family) > Monacanthus (Genus) > chinensis (Species)
Initial determination:: (Osbeck, ), 1765

Occurrence:: Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, New South Wales (Australia), Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Philippines, Samoa, Singapore, Spratly Islands, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor, Vietnam
Marine Zone:: Subtidal, sublittoral, infralittoral, deep zone of the oceans from the lower limit of the intertidal zone (intertidal) to the shelf edge at about 200 m water depth. neritic.
Sea depth:: 5 - 50 Meter
Size:: 13.78" - 14.96" (35cm - 38cm)
Temperature:: 75.2 °F - 80.6 °F (24°C - 27°C)
Food:: Aiptasia, Algae, Amphipods, Brine Shrimps, Bryozoans (sea mats), Copepods, Daphnia salina, Echinoderm larvae, Frozen Food (large sort), Hydrozoa polyps, Mysis, Sea weed, Worms
Tank:: 329.97 gal (~ 1500L)
Difficulty:: Average
Offspring:: Not available as offspring
Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown

CITES:

Not evaluated

Red List:

Least concern (LC)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2010-10-24 11:33:28
Last edit:: 2022-10-29 22:10:20

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Monacanthus chinensis (Osbeck, 1765)

Inhabits estuaries and on coastal and offshore reefs; also on weed bottoms and on trawling grounds. Found on muddy or silty substrates. Is an omnivore which feeds mainly on seagrass, algae, gammarid amphipods and caridean shrimps as well as on bryozoans, hydroids, ascidians, copepods, caprellid amphipods and tanaidaceans

External links

FishBase (multi). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
Fishes of Australia (en). Abgerufen am 07.08.2020.
World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) (en). Abgerufen am 29.10.2022.

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Juvenile

Foto: Clifton Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, Australien

Commonly

Fanbelly Leatherjacket - Monacanthus chinensis, Australien 2015

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