Orange-tailed Leatherjacket

Where and when

Where it has been recorded

Worldwide

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Best months

Worldwide (open data)

January: 241 records
February: 121 records
March: 223 records
April: 145 records
May: 114 records
June: 125 records
July: 61 records
August: 71 records
September: 46 records
October: 89 records
November: 125 records
December: 160 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 5–12 m · Deepest record: 96 m

0–10 m: 68 records
10–20 m: 22 records
20–30 m: 2 records
30–40 m: 0 records
40–50 m: 2 records
50–60 m: 1 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 1 records
90–100 m: 1 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 14–21 °C

12–14 °C: 1 records
14–16 °C: 299 records
16–18 °C: 6 records
18–20 °C: 10 records
20–22 °C: 22 records

Photos

(c) Grady Duffy, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Jiri Hronik, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Tim, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Belinda Forbes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Belinda Forbes, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Andrew Harvey, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
(c) Oscar Dove, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

Names and classification

English: Orange-tailed Leatherjacket, Yellow-striped Leatherjacket, Yellowstriped Leatherjacket, Yellow-stripe Leatherjacket, Yellow-tailed Leatherjacket, Yellowtail Leatherjacket

Names in 1 more languages

Simplified Chinese: 黄带似马面单棘鲀

Similar species

Cosmopolitan Leatherjacket
Meuschenia scabra
Brown-striped Leatherjacket
Meuschenia australis
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).
1,936 open-data records from 1959 to 2023.
Species data updated November 4, 2026.