Overview
Family : Flatheads ; Found on sand bottoms [1].
Interesting Facts
Common Names
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Common Names in Bikol:
Itang, Lubalob
Common Names in Danish:
Båndhalet fladhovedulk
Common Names in English:
Bar-tailed flathead, Flathead, Western Estuary Flathead, Yellowtail Flathead
Common Names in Ilokano:
Uram-uram
Common Names in Mandarin Chinese:
斑尾鯒, 斑尾鲬
Common Names in Surigaonon:
Sunog
Common Names in Tagalog:
Isdang buaya
Common Names in Visayan:
Sunugan
Description
Habitat
Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -84 meters (0 to -276 feet).[2]
Biome: Marine .
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Order:
Scorpaeniformes
()
- Family:
sand bottoms (Ref. 3132).
()
- Genus:
Platycephalus
()
- Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886
- Specific name:
endrachtensis
- Quoy & Gaimard, 1825
- Scientific name: - Platycephalus endrachtensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1825
- Specific name:
endrachtensis
- Quoy & Gaimard, 1825
- Genus:
Platycephalus
(
- Family:
sand bottoms (Ref. 3132).
(
- Order:
Scorpaeniformes
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
First described: Quoy & Gaimard In: Voy.Uranie,Zool., 1825.
Last scrutiny: Data
last modified by FishBase 03-Sep-1999
Similar Species
Members of the genus Platycephalus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 40 species and subspecies in this genus:
P. arenarius (Northern-Flag Tailed Flathead) · P. asper (Olive-Tailed Flathead) · P. aurimaculatus (Mongrel Tiger Flathead) · P. bassensis (Southern Sand Flathead) · P. borboniensis (Small-Eyed Flathead) · P. boschei (Bosch's Flathead) · P. caeruleopunctatus (Eastern Blue-Spot Flathead) · P. carbunculus (Papillose Flathead) · P. celebicus (Quarterspined Flathead) · P. chauliodous (Bigtooth Flathead) · P. conatus (Deep-Water Flathead) · P. cooperi (Spotted Flathead) · P. crocodilus (Crocodile Flathead) · P. endrachtensis (Western Estuary Flathead) · P. fuscus (Dusky Finned Bulleye) · P. gruveli (Guinea Flathead) · P. guttatus (Spot Eye Flathead) · P. indicus (Indo-Pacific Flathead) · P. japonicus (Japanese Flathead) · P. laevigatus (Marbled-Bellied Flathead) · P. longiceps (Indian Ocean Crocodilefish) · P. longispinis (Western Sand Flathead) · P. longispinus (Longspined Flathead) · P. macrodon (Tiger Flathead) · P. macrolepis (Notched Flathead) · P. marmoratus (Marbled Flathead) · P. nematophthalmus (Fringe-Eyed Flathead) · P. oligolepis (Large-Scale Flathead) · P. orbitalis (Western-Australian Flathead) · P. pedimacula (Blackblotch Flathead) · P. pristiger (Thorny Flathead) · P. pristis (Quarterspined Flathead) · P. richardsoni (Deep Sea Flathead) · P. rodericensis (Large-Spinned Flathead) · P. serratus (Serrated Flathead) · P. speculator (Castelnau's Flathead) · P. spinosus (Midget Flathead) · P. suppositus (Regan's Flathead) · P. tentaculatus (Tentacled Flathead) · Sorsogona prionota (Halfspined Flathead)
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Further Reading
- Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, D.C.: The Society, 1918- url , p. 172.
- Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 177.
- The fishes of India: being a natural history of the fishes known to inhabit the seas and fresh waters of India, Burma and Ceylon / by Francis Day. London: B. Quaritch, [1875]-1878. url p. 276.
- The fishes of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. .. by Dr. Max Weber. .. and Dr. L.F. de Beaufort. Leiden, E.J. Brill, Ltd., 1911- url p. 306.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- FishBase
- FishBase 2006.
- FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
- Vari, Richard P. (from FishBase).
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse (OBIS Australia)
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity - Fish Collection (AfrOBIS)
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
- Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 135484
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-34156
- Fishbase Species ID: 10783
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14386274
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 644353
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 120933
Footnotes
- Allen, G.R. and R. Swainston (1988). The marine fishes of north-western Australia: a field guide for anglers and divers. Western Australian Museum, Perth. 201 pp. [back]
- Mean = -17.720 meters (-58.136 feet), Standard Deviation = 26.540 based on 47 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
