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Meuschenia
Meuschenia scaber
Meuschenia freycineti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Tetraodontiformes
Family:	Monacanthidae
Genus:	Meuschenia Whitley, 1929

Meuschenia is a genus of filefishes native to the coastal waters around Australia. There are eight species from the temperate southern half of Australia.

Species

There are currently 9 recognized species in this genus:

• Meuschenia australis (Donovan, 1824) (Southern leatherjacket)
• Meuschenia flavolineata Hutchins, 1977 (Yellow-striped leatherjacket)
• Meuschenia freycineti (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (Six-spined leatherjacket)
• Meuschenia galii Hutchins, 1977 (Blue-lined leatherjacket)
• Meuschenia hippocrepis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) (Horse-shoe leatherjacket)
• Meuschenia scaber (J. R. Forster, 1801) (Velvet leatherjacket)
• Meuschenia trachylepis (Günther, 1870)
• Meuschenia venusta Hutchins, 1977 (Stars and stripes leatherjacket)

References

1. Bray, D.J. (2012): Meuschenia, in Fishes of Australia, accessed 16 Oct 2014, http://www.fishesofaustralia.net.au/home/genus/897 Archived 2014-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
2. Matsuura, K. (2014): Taxonomy and systematics of tetraodontiform fishes: a review focusing primarily on progress in the period from 1980 to 2014. Ichthyological Research, 62 (1): 72-113.

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