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Meuschenia
Sign in to saveMeuschenia is a genus of filefishes native to the coastal waters around Australia. There are nine species from the temperate southern half of Australia.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Meuschenia is referenced by 6 other articles, and connects out to Smooth leatherjacket, Australia and Animalia.
It is catalogued under topics including Filefish, Marine fish genera and Taxa named by Gilbert Percy Whitley.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderTetraodontiformes
- FamilyMonacanthidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 341
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Collections
- NMV, USNM
- Recorded in
- Australia
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Meuschenia is a genus of filefishes native to the coastal waters around Australia. There are nine species from the temperate southern half of Australia.
==Species== There are currently 9 recognized species in this genus: {| class="wikitable" |+ !Species !Common name !Image |- |Meuschenia australis (Donovan, 1824) |Southern leatherjacket |frameless |- |Meuschenia flavolineata Hutchins, 1977 |Yellow-striped leatherjacket |frameless |- |Meuschenia freycineti (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) |Six-spined leatherjacket |frameless |- |Meuschenia galii Hutchins, 1977 |Blue-lined leatherjacket |frameless |- |Meuschenia hippocrepis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) |Horse-shoe leatherjacket |frameless |- |Meuschenia scabra (J. R. Forster, 1801) |Velvet leatherjacket |frameless |- |Meuschenia trachylepis (Günther, 1870) |Yellowfin leatherjacket |frameless |- |Meuschenia venusta Hutchins, 1977 |Stars and stripes leatherjacket |frameless |- |Meuschenia xanthopterus (Xu & Zhan, 1988) | | |}
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