Overview
Family : Flatheads ; Found on sand and mud bottoms of the continental shelf.
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Flathead, Japanese flathead, Rusty Flathead, Smooth flathead
Common Names in French:
Platyc, Platycéphale japonais
Common Names in Japanese:
Tokagegochi
Common Names in Korean:
점양태
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
日本牛尾魚, 日本牛尾鱼, 日本瞳鯒, 日本瞳鲬, 牛尾
Common Names in Spanish:
Chato Japon, Chato japonés
Common Names in Thai:
Huabaendang, หัวแบนด่าง
Common Names in Vietnamese:
Cá Chai Nh?t B?n, Cá Chai Nhật Bản
Description
Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -2,474 meters (0 to -8,117 feet).[1]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Actinopterygii
()
- Order:
Scorpaeniformes
()
- Family:
sand and mud bottoms of the continental
shelf.
()
- Genus:
Inegocia
()
- Jordan & Thompson, 1913
- Specific name:
japonica
- Scientific name: - Inegocia japonica (Tilesius, 1812)
- Specific name:
japonica
- Genus:
Inegocia
(
- Family:
sand and mud bottoms of the continental
shelf.
(
- Order:
Scorpaeniformes
(
- Class:
Actinopterygii
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Synonyms
Inegocia borboriensis (Cuvier • Inegocia isacanthus (Cuvier • Inegocia japonica • Inegocia japonicas • Inegocia japonicas (Tilesius • Inegocia japonicas (Tilesius, 1812) • Inegocia japonicus • Inegocia japonicus (Tilesius • Inegocia japonicus (Tilesius, 1812) • Platycephalus borbonensis Cuvier • Platycephalus borbonicus Cuvier • Platycephalus borboniensis Cuvier • Platycephalus isacanthus Cuvier • Platycephalus japonicus • Platycephalus japonicus Tilesius • Platycephalus japonicus Tilesius, 1812 • Suggrundus isacanthus (Cuvier • Thysanophrys japonicus (Tilesius
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 03-Sep-1999
Similar Species
Members of the genus Inegocia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:
I. crocodilus (Japanese Flathead) · I. guttata (Spot Eye Flathead) · I. harrisii (Harris´s Flathead) · I. japonica (Japanese Flathead)
More Info
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, D.C.: The Society, 1918- url p. 172.
- Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 591.
- Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901-1936. url , p. 278.
- Record of fishes obtained in Japan in 1911, by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1914 url p. 278.
- Record of the fishes obtained in Japan in 1911 / by David Starr Jordan and William Francis Thompson. Pittsburgh: Published by the authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, [1914] url p. 278.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 15, 2007:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection
- Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
- Museum national d'histoire naturelle, Ichtyologie
- National Chemical Laboratory, IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
- OZCAM
- Provider, Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Royal Ontario Museum, Fish specimens
- Senckenberg, Collection Pisces
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 129703
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-21587
- Fishbase Species ID: 10335
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13636504
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 644037
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 114007
Footnotes
- Mean = -89.390 meters (-293.274 feet), Standard Deviation = 412.360 based on 381 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
