Brown-striped Leatherjacket

Meuschenia australis

Fish
IUCN: Least concern

Usual depth5–80 m
Water temperature12–23 °C
Best monthsMarch, April, and May
How commonOccasional

All species

Photo credit: (c) Bruce Deagle, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Bruce Deagle · CC BY · iNaturalist

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 44 records
February: 27 records
March: 130 records
April: 90 records
May: 101 records
June: 65 records
July: 21 records
August: 6 records
September: 23 records
October: 54 records
November: 63 records
December: 33 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 5–80 m · Deepest record: 475 m

0–10 m: 392 records
10–20 m: 72 records
20–30 m: 4 records
30–40 m: 11 records
40–50 m: 13 records
50–60 m: 37 records
60–70 m: 31 records
70–80 m: 60 records
80–90 m: 19 records
90–100 m: 5 records
100–110 m: 2 records
110+ m: 51 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 12–23 °C

10–12 °C: 1 records
12–14 °C: 93 records
14–16 °C: 487 records
16–18 °C: 11 records
18–20 °C: 35 records
20–22 °C: 1 records
22–24 °C: 1 records

Photos

(c) Bruce Deagle, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Bruce Deagle, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
no rights reserved · CC0 1.0 · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Brown-striped Leatherjacket, Brownstriped Leatherjacket, Donovan's Leatherjacket, Southern Leatherjacket, White-banded Leatherjacket

Other scientific names: Balistes australis, Navodon australis

Similar species

Cosmopolitan Leatherjacket
Meuschenia scabra
Orange-tailed Leatherjacket
Meuschenia flavolineata
Xix-spined leatherjacket
Meuschenia freycineti
Blue-lined Leatherjacket
Meuschenia galii
Horse-shoe Leatherjacket
Meuschenia hippocrepis
Yellowfin Leatherjacket
Meuschenia trachylepis

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).
930 open-data records from 1909 to 2023.
Species data updated November 4, 2026.

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