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Created 12/13/2023

Family Monacanthidae

SOUTH PACIFIC

Cantherhines longicaudus



Paradise Taveuni, Fiji, 80 feet

LONGTAIL FILEFISH

Inhabits ledges deeper than 60 feet.  Olive-yellow with diffuse brown bar below eye, four horizontal rows of obscure blotches, lacks white on upper caudal peduncle.  Attains 6 inches.  Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia, Cook Islands to Pitcairn, newly reported from Fiji.