Honeycomb filefish

Cantherhines pardalis

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth5–21 m
Water temperature17–29 °C
Best monthsMarch, April, and May
How commonOccasional

Photo credit: (c) Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

About this species

Cantherhines pardalis is a species of fish in the family Monacanthidae, the filefishes. Common names include honeycomb filefish, honeycomb leatherjacket, and wire-netting filefish. It is native to the Indian Ocean, the eastern Atlantic, and the western Pacific, except for the seas around Hawaii, where it is replaced by Cantherhines sandwichiensis.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Cantherhines pardalis”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 68 records
February: 136 records
March: 195 records
April: 272 records
May: 210 records
June: 187 records
July: 143 records
August: 138 records
September: 175 records
October: 112 records
November: 89 records
December: 62 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 5–21 m · Deepest record: 125 m

0–10 m: 392 records
10–20 m: 424 records
20–30 m: 114 records
30–40 m: 5 records
40–50 m: 0 records
50–60 m: 0 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 0 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110+ m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 17–29 °C

16–18 °C: 1 records
18–20 °C: 7 records
20–22 °C: 10 records
22–24 °C: 15 records
24–26 °C: 34 records
26–28 °C: 105 records
28–30 °C: 398 records

Photos

(c) Ульяна Лалак, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Ewout Knoester, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist
(c) Donald Davesne, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Debra Baker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
no rights reserved · CC0 1.0 · iNaturalist
(c) Storm Martin, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
no rights reserved · CC0 1.0 · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Honeycomb filefish, Wier-net filefish, Brown Leather-jacket, honeycomb filefish, Honeycomb Leather-jacket, Honeycomb Leatherjacket, Indo-Pacific Leatherjacket, Leopard Leather-jacket, Leopard Leatherjacket, Variegated Filefish, wier-net filefish, Wire-net Filefish, Wirenet Filefish, Wire-netting Leatherjacket

Names in 4 more languages

German: Netz-Feilenfisch
French: Bourse rayon de miel, Poisson-lime panthère
Japanese: Amimeumazurahagi, アミメウマヅラハギ
Simplified Chinese: 剝皮魚, 細斑刺鼻單棘魨, 細斑前孔魨, 细斑前孔鲀

Other scientific names: Amanses microlepidotus, Amanses pardalis, Cantherhines melanoides, Cantherhines parkalis, Cantherines pardalis, Hanomanctus bovinus, Moancanthus kibikib, Monacanthus aspersus, Monacanthus brunneus, Monacanthus fatensis, Monacanthus fuliginosus, Monacanthus houttuyni, Monacanthus kibikib, Monacanthus laevicaudatus, Monacanthus melanistius, Monacanthus melanuropterus, Monacanthus natalensis, Monacanthus pardalis, Pseudomonacanthus melanoides

Sources and credits

Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).

Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
2,212 open-data records from 1837 to 2023.
Species data updated October 26, 2026.

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