Beaked Leatherjacket
Oxymonacanthus longirostris
Category: Reef Fish
IUCN Conservation Status: VU - Vulnerable - facing a high risk of extinction in the wild
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Family
- Monacanthidae
- Genus
- Oxymonacanthus
Where to Find
Found in 39 diving areas across 27 countries and 6 regions.
- Rowley Shoals, Australia - 7 records
- Grand Lagoon, New Caledonia - 1 records
- Isle of Pines, New Caledonia - 2 records
- Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia - 21 records
- Kadavu & Great Astrolabe Reef, Fiji - 12 records
- Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands - 12 records
- Pohnpei, Micronesia - 1 records
- Yap, Micronesia - 2 records
- Peleliu & Angaur, Palau - 14 records
- Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Savai'i, Samoa - 1 records
- Upolu, Samoa - 101 records
- Ha'apai Group, Tonga - 110 records
- Tongatapu, Tonga - 50 records
- Vava'u Group, Tonga - 16 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 1 records
- Ishigaki & Yaeyama, Japan - 4 records
- Kerama Islands, Japan - 1 records
- Moheli, Comoros - 6 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 2 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 2 records
- Watamu & Malindi, Kenya - 1 records
- Vaavu Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 6 records
- Rodrigues Island, Mauritius - 3 records
- Mayotte Lagoon, Mayotte - 3 records
- Quirimbas Archipelago, Mozambique - 2 records
- Saint-Gilles & West Coast, Réunion - 3 records
- Aldabra & Outer Islands, Seychelles - 1 records
- Inner Islands, Seychelles - 42 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 6 records
- Eilat, Israel - 2 records
- Port Sudan & Sanganeb, Sudan - 4 records
- Dumaguete, Philippines - 7 records
- Visayas, Philippines - 7 records
- Koh Lanta & Phi Phi, Thailand - 3 records
- Similan Islands, Thailand - 3 records
- Nha Trang, Vietnam - 6 records