Black Reef Leatherjacket

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 75 records
February: 68 records
March: 58 records
April: 82 records
May: 50 records
June: 60 records
July: 50 records
August: 54 records
September: 50 records
October: 30 records
November: 57 records
December: 67 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 48–143 m · Deepest record: 204 m

10–20 m: 1 records
20–30 m: 0 records
30–40 m: 1 records
40–50 m: 7 records
50–60 m: 4 records
60–70 m: 10 records
70–80 m: 4 records
80–90 m: 7 records
90–100 m: 6 records
100–110 m: 7 records
110–120 m: 6 records
120+ m: 20 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 16–23 °C

14–16 °C: 2 records
16–18 °C: 10 records
18–20 °C: 61 records
20–22 °C: 14 records
22–24 °C: 4 records

Photos

(c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) neilfws, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Andrew Harvey, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Hugh Chan, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Valentin Moser, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Bryce Watts-Parker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Andrew Harvey, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Black Reef Leatherjacket, Black Reef-Leatherjacket, Whitley's Leatherjacket

Names in 1 more languages

Simplified Chinese: 黑头锯棘单棘鲀

Other scientific names: Blandowskius bucephalus

Similar species

Deep-bodied Leatherjacket
Eubalichthys mosaicus
Blue-tailed Leatherjacket
Eubalichthys cyanoura
Black Leatherjacket
Eubalichthys gunnii
Blue-finned Leatherjacket
Eubalichthys caeruleoguttatus
Fourspine Leatherjacket
Eubalichthys quadrispinis
Leatherjacket
Aluterus monoceros

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.
Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
486 open-data records from 1970 to 2006.
Species data updated November 2, 2026.