Image: Young male Sixspine Leatherjacket
A developing male Sixspine Leatherjacket at a depth of 14 m, Montague Island, New South Wales, January 2000. Note that the central blotch on the side of the body is starting to become discernible.
- Photographer:
- Erik Schlögl
- Rights:
- © Erik Schlögl
- Common name:
- Sixspine Leatherjacket
- Scientific name:
- Meuschenia freycineti
- Family:
- Monacanthidae
- Order:
- Tetraondontiformes
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Tags fishes, ichthyology, Meuschenia freycineti, Sixspine Leatherjacket, male, young, Monacanthidae, blue, yellow-blotches, coastal reef, seagrass bed, offshore reef, 30 cm - 1 m,
