Image: Rough Leatherjacket with fungus

Rough Leatherjacket with a fungal type of growth at a depth 10 m, Shelly Beach, Sydney, New South Wales, 25 January 2013.

Photographer:

Gaetano Dario Gargiulo

Rights:

© Gaetano Dario Gargiulo

Additional information

Thank you to Barry Hutchins who stated "It is a fungal type of growth that I have seen on numerous monacanthids. I have found individuals of Meuschenia galii almost completely covered in it."

Last Updated: 26 February 2013

Tags Rough Leatherjacket, Scobinichthys granulatus, Monacanthidae, fishes, ichthyology, fungus,