Dotterel Filefish
Aluterus heudelotii
- Least concern
- Card rarity: Common
- Fish
Aluterus heudelotii, the dotterel filefish or dottered filefish, is a filefish of the family Monacanthidae. It is found in the western Atlantic from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico and along the Caribbean coast of South America to northeast Brazil, and in the eastern Atlantic from Mauritania and Senegal to southern Angola. It is named after Jean-Pierre Heudelot.
Classification
- Class
- Actinopterygii
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Aluterus