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Monacanthidae
Planehead filefish
Stephanolepis hispida
Deep Bodied Filefish of the Caribbean Sea
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
MediumPlanehead filefish is a marine fish from Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 36.9 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Stephanolepis
- Maximum length
- 36.9 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada south along the U.S., Bermuda, the Bahamas, throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, and along South America to Uruguay (Ref. 114078 ). Eastern Atlantic: Canary Islands, Morocco to Angola (Ref. 109259 ) including Madeira (Ref. 3592 ).
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