Platycephalus laevigatus

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Flatheads ; Found inshore and over reefs[1].

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Habitat

Typically found in water with a depth of 0 to -88 meters (0 to -289 feet).[2]

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Platycephalus laevigatus Cuvier in Cuvier and Valenciennes, 1829 • Platycephalus laevigatus Cuvier, 1829 • Platycephalus proximus Castelnau

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: In Cuvier & Valenciennes.

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

• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 179.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 29.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url p. 358.
• Records of the South Australian Museum / Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery of South Australia. Adelaide: Published under the authority of the board of governors and edited by the museum director, 1918- url p. 173.
• 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. 307.

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 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• Kullander, Sven O. (from FishBase).
• 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.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 2008:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bureau of Rural Sciences National commercial fisheries half-degree data set 2000-2002 (OBIS Australia)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: CSIRO Marine Data Warehouse (OBIS Australia)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 135487
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-127042
• Fishbase Species ID: 52356
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14386274
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 167160
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 120936

Footnotes

1. Paxton, J.R., D.F. Hoese, G.R. Allen and J.E. Hanley (1989). Pisces. Petromyzontidae to Carangidae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Vol. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 665 p. [back]
2. Mean = 30.840 meters (101.181 feet), Standard Deviation = 96.490 based on 61 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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