Meuschenia venusta Beautiful Leatherjacket, Stars And Stripes Leatherjacket

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lexID:: 10957

Scientific:: Meuschenia venusta
German:: Feilenfisch
English:: Beautiful Leatherjacket, Stars And Stripes Leatherjacket

Category:: Filefishes
Family tree:: Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Monacanthidae (Family) > Meuschenia (Genus) > venusta (Species)
Initial determination:: Hutchins, 1977

Occurrence:: Australia, Endemic species
Sea depth:: 5 - 100 Meter
Size:: up to 8.27" (21 cm)
Temperature:: 71.6 °F - 77 °F (22°C - 25°C)
Food:: No reliable information available, Zooplankton
Difficulty:: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully
Offspring:: None

Toxicity:: Toxic hazard unknown
Red List:: Not evaluated (NE)

Related species at Catalog of Life:

Author:: Meerwasser-Lexikon Team
Publisher:: Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:: 2017-08-08 16:32:22
Last edit:: 2017-08-10 12:10:18

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Hutchins, 1977

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Monacanthidae (Family) > Meuschenia (Genus) > Meuschenia venusta (Species)

Meuschenia venusta Beautiful Leatherjacket, Stars And Stripes Leatherjacket

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