THE NATURAL-HISTORY CATALOGUE
A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Monacanthidae · Clear filter
91 records · page 1 of 2
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Acanthaluteres spilomelanurus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acreichthys hajam (Bleeker, 1851) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acreichthys radiatus (Popta, 1900) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Acreichthys tomentosus (Linnaeus, 1758) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| dotterel filefishAluterus heudelotii Hollard, 1855 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| orange filefishAluterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| scrawled filefishAluterus scriptus (Osbeck, 1765) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| broom filefishAmanses scopas (Cuvier, 1829) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Arotrolepis filicauda (Günther, 1880) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brachaluteres jacksonianus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brachaluteres taylori Woods, 1966 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Brachaluteres ulvarum Jordan & Fowler, 1902 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| barred filefishCantherhines dumerilii (Hollard, 1854) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| spectacled filefishCantherhines fronticinctus (Günther, 1867) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cantherhines longicaudus Hutchins & Randall, 1982 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cantherhines nukuhiva Randall, 2011 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| honeycomb filefishCantherhines pardalis (Rüppell, 1837) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cantherhines verecundus Jordan, 1925 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cantheschenia grandisquamis Hutchins, 1977 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Enigmacanthus filamentosus Hutchins, 2002 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eubalichthys bucephalus (Whitley, 1931) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eubalichthys caeruleoguttatus Hutchins, 1977 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eubalichthys cyanoura Hutchins, 1987 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eubalichthys gunnii (Günther, 1870) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eubalichthys mosaicus (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Eubalichthys quadrispinis Hutchins, 1977 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Lalmohania velutina Hutchins, 1994 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Meuschenia australis (Donovan, 1824) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Meuschenia flavolineata Hutchins, 1977 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| xix-spined leatherjacketMeuschenia freycineti (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Meuschenia galii (Waite, 1905) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Meuschenia hippocrepis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Meuschenia scabra (Forster, 1801) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Meuschenia trachylepis (Günther, 1870) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Meuschenia venusta Hutchins, 1977 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Monacanthus chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| fringed filefishMonacanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| slender filefishMonacanthus tuckeri Bean, 1906 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Nelusetta ayraud (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| harlequin filefishOxymonacanthus halli Marshall, 1952 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longnose filefishOxymonacanthus longirostris (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paraluteres arqat Clark & Gohar, 1953 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| false pufferParaluteres prionurus (Bleeker, 1851) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramonacanthus choirocephalus (Bleeker, 1851) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramonacanthus curtorhynchos (Bleeker, 1855) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramonacanthus frenatus (Peters, 1855) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Hairfinned leatherjacketParamonacanthus japonicus (Tilesius, 1809) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramonacanthus lowei Hutchins, 1997 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramonacanthus matsuurai Hutchins, 1997 | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Paramonacanthus nematophorus (Günther, 1870) | MonacanthidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
91 records · page 1 of 2
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.