Pancake batfish
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| Halieutichthys aculeatus (Mitchill, 1818) |
The pancake batfish, Halieutichthys aculeatus, belongs to the family Ogcocephalidae of batfishes. Their distributrition includes western Atlantic, North Carolina, northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America. They inhabit a subtropical, sandy, reef-associated, and 45–820 m deep environment.[1]
They live on the bottom, covered in sand. The fish are flat, resembling pancakes.
[edit] References
- Halieutichthys aculeatus (TSN 164594). Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved on 18 April 2006.
- ^ "Halieutichthys aculeatus". FishBase. Ed. Ranier Froese and Daniel Pauly. February 2006 version. N.p.: FishBase, 2006.
