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Scrawled Filefish
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Scrawled Filefish

Aluterus scriptus

Aluterus scriptus, commonly known as scrawled filefish, broomtail filefish or scribbled leatherjacket, is a marine fish belonging to the family Monacanthidae.

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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In the old herbals & bestiaries

Scrawled Filefish in The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...

The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...

Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.66

Scrawled Filefish in Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 1) (1750)

Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 1) (1750)

Mark Catesby · 1750 · p.64

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49498.