Monacanthidae

Filefishes

109 species

1. 1Acanthaluteres brownii (Richardson, 1846) · Spiny-tailed leatherjacketocean · subtropical · reef
2. 2Acanthaluteres spilomelanurus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) · Bridled leatherjacketbrackish · ocean · subtropical
3. 3Acanthaluteres vittiger (Castelnau, 1873) · Toothbrush leatherjacketocean · subtropical
4. 4Acreichthys hajam (Bleeker, 1851)ocean · subtropical
5. 5Acreichthys radiatus (Popta, 1900) · Radial leatherjacketocean · tropical · reef
6. 6Acreichthys tomentosus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Bristle-tail file-fishocean · tropical · reef
7. 7Aluterus heudelotii Hollard, 1855 · Dotterel filefishocean · tropical
8. 8Aluterus monoceros (Linnaeus, 1758) · Unicorn leatherjacket filefishocean · subtropical · reef
9. 9Aluterus schoepfii (Walbaum, 1792) · Orange filefishocean · subtropical · reef
10. 10Aluterus scriptus (Osbeck, 1765) · Scrawled Filefishocean · subtropical · reef
11. 11Amanses scopas (Cuvier, 1829) · Broom filefishocean · tropical · reef
12. 12Anacanthus barbatus Gray, 1830 · Bearded leatherjacketbrackish · ocean · tropical · reef
13. 13Arotrolepis filicauda (Günther, 1880) · Threadfin leatherjacketocean · tropical
14. 14Brachaluteres fahaqa Clark & Gohar, 1953ocean · tropical · reef
15. 15Brachaluteres jacksonianus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) · Pigmy leatherjacketbrackish · ocean · temperate · reef
16. 16Brachaluteres taylori Woods, 1966 · Taylor's inflator filefishocean · tropical · reef
17. 17Brachaluteres ulvarum Jordan & Fowler, 1902 · Japanese inflator filefishocean · temperate · reef
18. 18Cantherhines cerinus Randall, 2011 · Waxy filefishocean · tropical · reef
19. 19Cantherhines dumerilii (Hollard, 1854) · Whitespotted filefishocean · tropical · reef
20. 20Cantherhines fronticinctus (Günther, 1867) · Spectacled filefishocean · tropical · reef
21. 21Cantherhines longicaudus Hutchins & Randall, 1982ocean · tropical
22. 22Cantherhines macrocerus (Hollard, 1853) · American whitespotted filefishocean · tropical · reef
23. 23Cantherhines nukuhiva Randall, 2011ocean · tropical · reef
24. 24Cantherhines pardalis (Rüppell, 1837) · Honeycomb filefishocean · tropical · reef
25. 25Cantherhines pullus (Ranzani, 1842) · Orangespotted filefishocean · subtropical · reef
26. 26Cantherhines rapanui (de Buen, 1963) · Rapanui filefishocean · subtropical
27. 27Cantherhines sandwichiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) · Sandwich isle fileocean · tropical · reef
28. 28Cantherhines tiki Randall, 1964ocean · tropical
29. 29Cantherhines verecundus Jordan, 1925 · Shy filefishbrackish · ocean · tropical
30. 30Cantheschenia grandisquamis Hutchins, 1977 · Large-scaled leatherjacketocean · temperate · reef
31. 31Cantheschenia longipinnis (Fraser-Brunner, 1941)ocean · subtropical
32. 32Chaetodermis penicilligerus (Cuvier, 1816) · Prickly leatherjacketocean · tropical · reef
33. 33Colurodontis paxmani Hutchins, 1977ocean · subtropical
34. 34Enigmacanthus filamentosus Hutchins, 2002ocean · tropical
35. 35Eubalichthys bucephalus (Whitley, 1931) · Black reef leatherjacketbrackish · ocean · subtropical
36. 36Eubalichthys caeruleoguttatus Hutchins, 1977 · Blue-spotted leatherjacketocean · tropical
37. 37Eubalichthys cyanoura Hutchins, 1987 · Bluetail leatherjacketocean · subtropical · reef
38. 38Eubalichthys gunnii (Günther, 1870) · Gunn's leatherjacketbrackish · ocean · subtropical
39. 39Eubalichthys mosaicus (Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886) · Mosaic leatherjacketocean · temperate · reef
40. 40Eubalichthys quadrispinis Hutchins, 1977 · Four-spined leatherjacketocean · subtropical
41. 41Lalmohania velutina Hutchins, 1994ocean · tropical
42. 42Meuschenia australis (Donovan, 1824) · Southern leatherjacketocean · temperate · reef
43. 43Meuschenia flavolineata Hutchins, 1977 · Yellow-striped leatherjacketocean · temperate · reef
44. 44Meuschenia freycineti (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) · Six-spined leatherjacketocean · temperate
45. 45Meuschenia galii (Waite, 1905) · Blue-lined leatherjacketocean · subtropical · reef
46. 46Meuschenia hippocrepis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) · Horse-shoe leatherjacketocean · temperate
47. 47Meuschenia scabra (Forster, 1801) · Velvet leatherjacketocean · temperate
48. 48Meuschenia trachylepis (Günther, 1870)ocean · subtropical · reef
49. 49Meuschenia venusta Hutchins, 1977 · Stars and stripes leatherjacketocean · subtropical · reef
50. 50Monacanthus chinensis (Osbeck, 1765) · Fan-bellied leatherjacketocean · tropical · reef
51. 51Monacanthus ciliatus (Mitchill, 1818) · Fringed filefishocean · subtropical · reef
52. 52Monacanthus tuckeri Bean, 1906 · Slender filefishocean · subtropical · reef
53. 53Nelusetta ayraud (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) · Chinaman-leatherjacketocean · subtropical
54. 54Oxymonacanthus halli Marshall, 1952 · Red Sea longnose filefishocean · tropical · reef
55. 55Oxymonacanthus longirostris (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) · Harlequin filefishocean · tropical · reef
56. 56Paraluteres arqat Clark & Gohar, 1953ocean · tropical
57. 57Paraluteres prionurus (Bleeker, 1851) · False pufferocean · tropical · reef
58. 58Paramonacanthus arabicus Hutchins, 1997 · Gulf filefishocean · tropical
59. 59Paramonacanthus choirocephalus (Bleeker, 1851) · Pig faced leather jacketocean · tropical
60. 60Paramonacanthus cryptodon (Bleeker, 1855)ocean · tropical · reef
61. 61Paramonacanthus curtorhynchos (Bleeker, 1855) · Shortsnout filefishocean · tropical
62. 62Paramonacanthus frenatus (Peters, 1855) · Wedgetail filefishocean · subtropical
63. 63Paramonacanthus japonicus (Tilesius, 1809) · Hairfinned leatherjacketocean · tropical · reef
64. 64Paramonacanthus lowei Hutchins, 1997 · Lowe's leatherjacketocean · tropical
65. 65Paramonacanthus matsuurai Hutchins, 1997ocean · temperate
66. 66Paramonacanthus nematophorus (Günther, 1870)ocean · tropical
67. 67Paramonacanthus nipponensis (Kamohara, 1939) · Japanese leatherjacketocean · tropical · reef
68. 68Paramonacanthus oblongus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) · Hair-finned filefishocean · tropical
69. 69Paramonacanthus otisensis Whitley, 1931 · Dusky leatherjacketocean · subtropical
70. 70Paramonacanthus pusillus (Rüppell, 1829) · Faintstripe filefishocean · tropical
71. 71Paramonacanthus sulcatus (Hollard, 1854) · Mudbank filefishocean · temperate
72. 72Paramonacanthus tricuspis (Hollard, 1854) · Estuary filefishocean · tropical
73. 73Pervagor alternans (Ogilby, 1899) · Yelloweye filefishocean · tropical · reef
74. 74Pervagor aspricaudus (Hollard, 1854) · Orangetail filefishocean · tropical · reef
75. 75Pervagor janthinosoma (Bleeker, 1854) · Blackbar filefishocean · tropical · reef
76. 76Pervagor marginalis Hutchins, 1986ocean · tropical · reef
77. 77Pervagor melanocephalus (Bleeker, 1853) · Redtail filefishocean · tropical · reef
78. 78Pervagor nigrolineatus (Herre, 1927) · Blacklined filefishocean · tropical · reef
79. 79Pervagor randalli Hutchins, 1986ocean · tropical · reef
80. 80Pervagor spilosoma (Lay & Bennett, 1839) · Fantail filefishocean · tropical · reef
81. 81Pseudalutarius nasicornis (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) · Rhinoceros leatherjacketocean · subtropical · reef
82. 82Pseudomonacanthus elongatus Fraser-Brunner, 1940 · Fourband leatherjacketocean · tropical
83. 83Pseudomonacanthus macrurus (Bleeker, 1856) · Strap-weed file-fishocean · tropical · reef
84. 84Pseudomonacanthus peroni (Hollard, 1854) · Pot-bellied leatherjacketocean · tropical · reef
85. 85Pseudomonacanthus tweediei Fraser-Brunner, 1940ocean · tropical · reef
86. 86Rudarius ercodes Jordan & Fowler, 1902 · Whitespotted pygmy filefishocean · temperate · reef
87. 87Rudarius excelsus Hutchins, 1977 · Diamond leatherjacketocean · tropical · reef
88. 88Rudarius minutus Tyler, 1970 · Minute leatherjacketocean · tropical · reef
89. 89Scobinichthys granulatus (White, 1790) · Rough leatherjacketsocean · temperate · reef
90. 90Stephanolepis aurata (Castelnau, 1861) · Porkyocean · tropical
91. 91Stephanolepis cirrhifer (Temminck & Schlegel, 1850) · Threadsail filefishocean · temperate
92. 92Stephanolepis diaspros Fraser-Brunner, 1940 · Reticulated leatherjacketocean · tropical
93. 93Stephanolepis hispida (Linnaeus, 1766) · Planehead filefishocean · subtropical · reef
94. 94Stephanolepis setifer (Bennett, 1831) · Pygmy filefishocean · subtropical · reef
95. 95Thamnaconus analis (Waite, 1904)ocean · subtropical · reef
96. 96Thamnaconus arenaceus (Barnard, 1927) · Sandy filefishocean · subtropical
97. 97Thamnaconus degeni (Regan, 1903) · Degen's leatherjacketocean · temperate
98. 98Thamnaconus fajardoi Smith, 1953 · Spotted filefishocean · deep-water
99. 99Thamnaconus fijiensis Hutchins & Matsuura, 1984ocean · tropical
100. 100Thamnaconus garretti (Fowler, 1928) · Garrett's filefishocean · tropical · reef
101. 101Thamnaconus hypargyreus (Cope, 1871) · Lesser-spotted leatherjacketocean · tropical
102. 102Thamnaconus melanoproctes (Boulenger, 1889) · Blackvent filefishocean · tropical
103. 103Thamnaconus modestoides (Barnard, 1927) · Modest filefishocean · temperate · reef
104. 104Thamnaconus modestus (Günther, 1877) · Black scraperocean · tropical · reef
105. 105Thamnaconus multilineatus (Tanaka, 1918)ocean · temperate
106. 106Thamnaconus paschalis (Regan, 1913) · Easter filefishocean · tropical
107. 107Thamnaconus septentrionalis (Günther, 1874) · Greenfin horse-faced filefishocean · temperate
108. 108Thamnaconus striatus (Kotthaus, 1979) · Many-lined leatherjacketocean · tropical
109. 109Thamnaconus tessellatus (Günther, 1880)ocean · deep-water

Source: FishBase v25.04 (fishbase.org), via cboettig/fishbase, fetched 2026-10-18.