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Monacanthidae
longnose filefish
Oxymonacanthus longirostris
Twelve Centimeters Filefish of Indo Pacific
longnose filefish is known from Indo-Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Oxymonacanthus
- Maximum length
- 12 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: East Africa south to Maputo, Mozambique (Ref. 4421 ) and east to Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef, New Caledonia, and Tonga. Replaced by Oxymonacanthus halli in the Red Sea.
- Conservation status
- VUVulnerable

