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Aluterus scriptus  (Osbeck, 1765)

Scribbled Filefish, Scrawled Filefish

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Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Suborder: Balistoidei
Superfamily: Balistoidea
Family: Monacanthidae
Subfamily: -
Genus: Aluterus
Species: scriptus


  • Common names: Scribbled Filefish, Scrawled Filefish
  • Distribution: Circumtropical. Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil (Ref. 7251). Eastern Atlantic: St. Paul's Rocks (Ref. 13121), Cape Verde and Ascension Island (Ref. 3592); São Tomé Island (Ref. 34088); South Africa (Ref. 4421). Pacific Ocean: southern Japan to the southern Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia and Easter Island (Ref. 37816). In the eastern Pacific, from the Gulf of California to Colombia (Ref. 9318).
  • Image locations: Nakhon Si Thammarat (Koh Tao)
  • Environment: Marine
  • Additional notes: 
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Image locations

Images of Aluterus scriptus from Thailand.
Aluterus scriptus Picture
Aluterus scriptus (Scribbled filefish). Koh Tao, Chumphon Province. November, 2010.

References: 
​Fish Base 
BISMaL
Please note that individual species identifications do not necessarily represent the opinion of all contributors.

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