Oxymonacanthus longirostris Beaked Leatherjacket, Coral Filefish, Harlequin Filefish, Longnosed Filefish

Oxymonacanthus longirostris is commonly referred to as Beaked Leatherjacket, Coral Filefish, Harlequin Filefish, Longnosed Filefish. Difficulty in the aquarium: niveau expert! très difficile à garder!. A aquarium size of at least 600 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

Profile

lexID:

433 

AphiaID:

220063 

Scientific:

Oxymonacanthus longirostris 

German:

Orangeflecken-Feilenfisch 

English:

Beaked Leatherjacket, Coral Filefish, Harlequin Filefish, Longnosed Filefish 

Category:

Poissons-Limes 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Tetraodontiformes (Order) > Monacanthidae (Family) > Oxymonacanthus (Genus) > longirostris (Species) 

Initial determination:

(Bloch & Schneider, ), 1801 

Occurrence:

(the) Maldives, Africa, American Samoa, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Australia, China, Christmas Islands, Comores, Corea, East Africa, Fiji, Gilbert Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Guam, India, Indian Ocean, Indo Pacific, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Kiribati, Lord Howe Island, Madagascar, Malaysia, Marschall Islands, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Paracel-Islands, Philippines, Réunion , Samoa, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Tansania, Thailand, The Chagos Archipelago (the Chagos Islands), The Ryukyu Islands, the Seychelles, Timor, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Western Indian Ocean 

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:

1 - 35 Meter 

Size:

4.33" - 4.72" (11cm - 12cm) 

Temperature:

77 °F - 84.74 °F (25°C - 29.3°C) 

Food:

Brine Shrimp Nauplii, Brine Shrimps, Copepods, Coral polyps = corallivorous, Food specialist, Frozen food (small sorts), Lobster eggs, Mysis 

Tank:

131.99 gal (~ 600L)  

Difficulty:

niveau expert! très difficile à garder! 

Offspring:

Possible to breed 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Vulnerable (VU) 

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Oxymonacanthus halli
  Feilenfisch
• 
  Oxymonacanthus longirostris
  Orangeflecken-Feilenfisch

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2004-09-04 20:08:12 

Last edit:

2022-10-26 16:06:19 

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