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Meuschenia
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Meuschenia

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

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9 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 9 known species

Sixspine Leatherjacket

speciesMeuschenia freycineti

Yellowfin Leatherjacket

speciesMeuschenia trachylepis

Horseshoe Leatherjacket

speciesMeuschenia hippocrepis

Yellowstriped Leatherjacket

speciesMeuschenia flavolineata

Velvet Leatherjacket

speciesMeuschenia scabra

Bluelined Leatherjacket

speciesMeuschenia galii

Brownstriped Leatherjacket

speciesMeuschenia australis

Stars-and-stripes Leatherjacket

speciesMeuschenia venusta

Chinese Leatherjacket

speciesMeuschenia xanthopterus

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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 89902.