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Aluterus scriptus - Wikipedia

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Aluterus scriptus

A. scriptus, Red Sea, Egypt

Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)^[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Monacanthidae
Genus:	Aluterus
Species:	A. scriptus
Binomial name
*Aluterus scriptus* (Osbeck, 1765)

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

Distribution

This species has a circumtropical repartition, it can be found in the tropical waters from the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.^[2]

Habitat

This filefish can be observed in lagoons, coral and rocky reefs, seaweed fields, pinnacles, wrecks and also in open water.^[2]

Description

Aluterus scriptus is a medium size fish which can grow up to 110 cm (3.6 ft) in length.^[3] The body shape looks like an elongated oval, strongly compressed. Its background body coloration is olive-brown or grey depending on its surrounding environment, irregular blue lines and spots are distributed on the body mixed with some black spots mainly on the head. The colors may quickly vary depending on background similar to an octopus's. Fish observed in the Virgin Islands might lie flat on the sand and become pure white or change to any of the other representative colors. The mouth is small and at the end of its pointed snout. Like all the Tetraodontiformes, it has no pelvic fin but has two particular dorsal spines; the first anterior one is long, slender and erectile, located just over the eyes, the second is small and not easy to see but it locks the first one when it is erected.^[3] The rounded caudal fin is quite long and can be displayed as a fan.

The juveniles have a yellow with black spots body coloration.^[4]

Feeding

Aluterus scriptus is omnivorous and have a large choice for its meals like small crustaceans, algae, gorgonians, sea anemones, tunicates, fire coral,^[3] seagrasses and hydrozoans.^[5]

Behaviour

Aluterus scriptus is diurnal and is demersal. It is solitary and shy with divers and is rarely seen with others.

Toxin

It contains palytoxin, which is 50 times more toxic than tetrodotoxin, the poison of puffer fish.

Images

A. scriptus from French Polynesia
A. scriptus close-up view
A. scriptus from Indian Ocean, Réunion
A. scriptus from North Pacific, Hawaii
A. scriptus from Caribbean Sea, Dominican Republic

References

^ Matsuura, K., Robertson, R. & Tyler, J. (2015). Aluterus scriptus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T190125A16510872.en
^ ^a ^b Aluterus scriptus, Scribbled leatherjacket filefish : gamefish, aquarium. Fishbase.org (2016-07-20). Retrieved on 2016-11-10.
^ ^a ^b ^c Descriptions and articles about the Scrawled Filefish (Aluterus scriptus) – Encyclopedia of Life. Eol.org (2007-09-24). Retrieved on 2016-11-10.
^ (in French) DORIS – FFESSM – Biologie et plongée – Faune et flore sous-marines et dulcicoles. Doris.ffessm.fr. Retrieved on 2016-11-10.
^ "Aluterus scriptus (Scrawled Filefish)" (PDF). The Online Guide to the Animals of Trinidad and Tobago. Retrieved 4 June 2023.

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Taxon identifiers
Aluterus scriptus	Wikidata: Q1192880 ADW: Aluterus_scriptus AFD: Aluterus_scriptus BOLD: 86772 CoL: 5TXG3 FishBase: 4275 GBIF: 2406721 iNaturalist: 49498 IRMNG: 10144745 ITIS: 173134 IUCN: 190125 NatureServe: 2.104670 NCBI: 303710 NZOR: 9c54133a-97ec-433a-b958-9f7e0dd7c8a2 Observation.org: 79568 OBIS: 159491 Open Tree of Life: 959206 WoRMS: 159491

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