Monocanthidae

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Noun1.Monocanthidae - filefishesMonocanthidae - filefishes        
family Monocanthidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
order Plectognathi, order Tetraodontiformes, Plectognathi - boxfishes; filefishes; globefishes; ocean sunfishes; triggerfishes; puffers
genus Monocanthus, Monocanthus - type genus of the Monocanthidae
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Grant Gilmore responds: Jim, your fish looks like a unicorn filefish, Aluterus monoceros, one of the most wide-rangingfile fish (family Monocanthidae) in the world, found worldwide in both tropical and temperate waters.
Two from the X-Files
El 14% de las especies capturadas fueron consumidores de primer orden (predominantemente herbivoros), y pertenecieron a las familias Acanthuridae, Hyphorhamphidae, Kiphosidae, Monocanthidae y Scaridae.
Trama trofica de una comunidad de peces en una pradera marina en el Caribe Venezolano
Short- and long-term movement patterns of six temperate reef fishes (Families Labridae and Monocanthidae).
Seasonal occurrence and site-utilization patterns of adult tautog, Tautoga onitis (Labridae), at manmade and natural structures in lower Chesapeake Bay *
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