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Monacanthidae
pygmy filefish
Stephanolepis setifer
Fish drifting in sea grass
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- North America
- South America
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
North America
Deep-bodied
Mediumpygmy filefish is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 20 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Stephanolepis
- Maximum length
- 20 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Bermuda, North Carolina (USA), and northern Gulf of Mexico to southeastern Brazil (Ref. 57756 ). Indo-Pacific (Ref. 26165 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
