Scrawled Filefish 5"-6"
Description

Aluterus Scriptus
Food: Algae, seagrass, hydrozoans, gorgonians, colonial anemones, and tunicates
Size:30.5-76.2 cm (1-2.5 ft) avg; 110 cm (3.6 ft) max
Range:Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia to Gulf of Mexico and Brazil
Eastern Atlantic: St. Paul's Rocks, Cape Verde and Ascension Island to South Africa
Eastern Pacific: Gulf of California to Colombia
Western Indo-Pacific: Australia to Red Sea