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Platycephalus tentaculatus

(Tentacled flathead)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Tentacled flathead

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
    - Branch: Deuterostomia () - Grobben, 1908
      - Infrakingdom: Chordonia () - (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
        Phylum: Chordata () - Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
        Subphylum: Vertebrata () - Cuvier, 1812 - Vertebrates
        Infraphylum: Gnathostomata () - auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
        Superclass: Osteichthyes () - Huxley, 1880
        Class: Actinopterygii () - Huxley, 1880
        Subclass: Actinopterygii ()
        Infraclass: Actinopteri ()
        Cohort: Clupeocephala ()
        Superorder: Acanthopterygii ()
        Order: Scorpaeniformes ()
        Suborder: Platycephaloidei ()
        Family: Platycephalidae ()
        Genus: Platycephalus () - Ramsay & Ogilby, 1886
        Specific name: tentaculatus
        Scientific name: - Platycephalus tentaculatus

Synonyms

Platycephalus tentaculatus Rüppell, 1838

Similar Species

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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

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Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 21.
Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 380.
Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 184.
Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 298.
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 117, p. 119, p. 27.
The fishes of Samoa. Description of the species found in the Archipelago, with a provisional check-list of the fishes of Oceania. [By David Starr Jordan and Alvin Seale]. .. 1906 Washington, Government print off., 1906. url p. 380.
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. 308.

Notes

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Contributors

Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Identifiers

Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 166382
Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4154481

Last Revised: 2012-07-28