MONACANTHIDAE


Oxymonacanthus longirostris
(photo by Mark Strickland)



Oxymonacanthus longirostris
(photo by Ukkrit Satapoomin)


Oxymonacanthus longirostris
(Bloch and Schneider, 1801)
Harlequin Leatherjacket

D II + 32-35; A 29-32; P1 11-12.

Body relatively elongate. Snout long and pointed. Mouth small, supraterminal. Color: body green with many small orange spots and a black blotch on caudal fin. Size: maximum 9 cm. Distribution: widely distributed in tropical Indo-West Pacific from East Africa eastward to Solomon Islands, north to southern Japan. Remarks: a popul a r aqua r ium f i sh; f e eds exclusively on polyps of Acropora corals.