Class: Actinopterygii
/ Ray-finned fishes
Order: Tetraodontiformes
/ Boxfishes
Family: Monacanthidae
/ Filefishes
Genus Species: Aluterus
scriptus / Scrawled Filefish
Habitat:
reef and open water
Typical food:
lots of plant material, stinging coral, algae, hydrozoans, gorgonions,
sea grass,
colonial sea anemones, tunicates
Other information:
wary; often head downward scanning the bottom for food; "file-like" skin
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