Pancake batfish
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| Pancake batfish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Lophiiformes |
| Family: | Ogcocephalidae |
| Genus: | Halieutichthys |
| Species: | H. aculeatus |
| Binomial name | |
| 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.
Two new species of Halieutichthys batfish were discovered in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, in the region directly affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The two species were named Halieutichthys intermedius and Halieutichthys bispinosus.[2]
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References
- "Halieutichthys aculeatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 18 April 2006.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Halieutichthys aculeatus" in FishBase. February 2006 version.
- ↑ Reuters, Yahoo! (July 8, 2010). "New batfish species found under Gulf oil spill". Yahoo! News. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
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