Chinaman-leatherjacket

Chinaman-leatherjacket
Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Monacanthidae
Genus:	Nelusetta
Species:	N. ayraud
Binomial name
Nelusetta ayraud Quoy & Gaimard, 1824

The chinaman-leatherjacket or ocean leatherjacket, Nelusetta ayraud, is a filefish of the family Monacanthidae, found around Australia to depths of about 600 m. Its length is up to 1 m.

See also

• Leather jack

References

• "Nelusetta ayraud". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=646216. Retrieved 18 April 2006. 
• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Nelusetta ayraud" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
• Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8

• Link to Video - school of Chinaman-Leatherjacket Fish attacking an Octopus, and subsequently eating it: http://www.break.com/index/octopus-versus-huge-school-of-fish.html