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Fanbelly Leatherjacket

Monacanthus chinensis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) chmizzle, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 39, February 40, March 51, April 33, May 15, June 26, July 21, August 12, September 18, October 26, November 31, December 33.
Australia345
New South Wales263
Western Australia65
China62
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region54
Singapore27
Queensland17
EAST REGION9
Fujian Province6
Thailand5

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • AquaticLives primarily in waterFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumChordates · Chordata
ClassRay-finned Fishes · Actinopterygii
OrderPuffers and Filefishes · Tetraodontiformes
FamilyFilefishes · Monacanthidae
GenusMonacanthus

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Fanbelly Leatherjacket with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.