Southern Pygmy Leatherjacket
Brachaluterus baueri (Richardson, 1846)
Monacanthidae
(Alecto Facsimile Edition - Plate 28)

BAU30

$550.00

30. Southern Pygmy Leatherjacket. Brachaluteres jacksonianus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824)
[W,P&M]
340 x 508 mm
This fish was probably caught at Petrel Bay, St Francis Island, Nuyts Archipelago, South
Australia on 4 February 1802. In his diary entry for this day, Matthew Flinders comments on the
intense heat of the Australian summer :” …The great heat deterred the naturalists from going on
shore this morning, for the very little variety in the vegetable productions presented no inducement
to a repetition of their fatigue…”
Brachaluteres jacksonianus is common today in coastal waters from Western Australia to
Queensland, including Tasmania.
W&M : 323, 341; W,P&M : 60-61