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Meuschenia

Meuschenia is a genus of filefishes native to the coastal waters around Australia. There are nine species from the temperate southern half of Australia.

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Meuschenia
Meuschenia scabra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Monacanthidae
Genus: Meuschenia
Whitley, 1929
Synonyms1
  • Allomonacanthus (subgenus of Navodon) Fraser-Brunner, 1941
  • Laputa Whitley, 1930
  • Navodon Whitley, 1930
  • Parika Whitley, 1955

Meuschenia is a genus of filefishes native to the coastal waters around Australia. There are nine species from the temperate southern half of Australia.2

Species

There are currently 9 recognized species in this genus:3

Species Common name Image
Meuschenia australis

(Donovan, 1824)

Southern leatherjacket
Meuschenia flavolineata

Hutchins, 1977

Yellow-striped leatherjacket
Meuschenia freycineti

(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

Six-spined leatherjacket
Meuschenia galii

Hutchins, 1977

Blue-lined leatherjacket
Meuschenia hippocrepis

(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824)

Horse-shoe leatherjacket
Meuschenia scabra

(J. R. Forster, 1801)

Velvet leatherjacket
Meuschenia trachylepis

(Günther, 1870)

Yellowfin leatherjacket
Meuschenia venusta

Hutchins, 1977

Stars and stripes leatherjacket
Meuschenia xanthopterus

(Xu & Zhan, 1988)

References

References

  1. Fricke, Ron; Eschmeyer, William N. & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Meuschenia". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 29 November 2025.
  2. Bray, D.J. (2012). "Meuschenia". Fishes of Australia. Archived from the original on 2014-10-09. Retrieved 16 Oct 2014.
  3. Matsuura, K. (2014). "Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014". Ichthyological Research. 62 (1): 72–113.