Animalia > Chordata > Lophiiformes > Ogcocephalidae > Halieutichthys > Halieutichthys aculeatus

Halieutichthys aculeatus (Spiny batfish; Pancake batfish)

Synonyms: Halieutella lappa; Halieutichthys reticulatus; Halieuticthis aculeatus; Lophius aculeatus
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Wikipedia Abstract

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. They live on the bottom, covered in sand. The fish are flat, resembling pancakes. \n* Underside \n* Side
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lepidapedoides nicolli[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0