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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Monacanthidae

Filefishes

WoRMS 125610ITIS 203428GBIF 5896key worms:125610
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2026-08-05: itis_id 203428 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Emily Troyer · CC BY 4.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Aluterus shigensis

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Monacanthidae
Photo · Noah D · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The filefish (Monacanthidae) are a diverse family of tropical to subtropical tetraodontiform marine fish, which are also known as foolfish, leatherjackets, or shingles. They live in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1998 and 1998, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
1998
years
1
datasets
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 1 obs · 1 events · 1998 · larva
    name used: Monacanthidae Filefishes · code 393

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125610%22