Aluterus scriptus

Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 1, 2. — General distribution: Circumglobal in tropical and subtropical oceans, in western Pacific south to northern New Zealand. Found in lagoon and seaward coral and rocky reefs, occasionally under floating objects; juveniles may travel with weed rafts in open ocean for a long time, 3 – 120 m depth. Marine.

Sumber: Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records

Scrawled Filefish or Scrawled Leatherjacket. To 1.1 m (43.3 in) TL (Lieske and Myers 2002). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Hiyashi in Nakabo 2002); Rocas Alijos, southern Baja California (Gotshall 1998), Todos Santos area (23 ° 24.6 ’ N, 110 ° 13.8 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern Baja California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Gulf of California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995), Easter Island (Pequeño 1997), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 176 m (577 ft) (min.: Arndt and Fricke 2019; max.: Weijerman et al. 2019).

Sumber: Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico