Animalia > Chordata > Scorpaeniformes > Platycephalidae > Platycephalus > Platycephalus richardsoni

Platycephalus richardsoni (Deep sea flathead; King flathead; Spiky flathead; Teethies; Tiger flathead; Toothy flathead; Trawl flathead)

Synonyms: Neoplatycephalus grandis; Neoplatycephalus macrodon; Neoplatycephalus richardsoni; Platycephalus grandis; Platycephalus macrodon
Language: Danish; Mandarin Chinese

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.638 lbs (1.65 kg)
Maximum Longevity [2]  12 years

Prey / Diet

Apogonops anomalus (Flathead feed)[3]
Argentina australiae (Deepsea smelt)[3]
Nyctiphanes australis[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Andracantha clavata[3]
Aponurus laguncula[4]
Erilepturus hamati[5]
Microcotyle bassensis[4]
Serrasentis sagittifer[5]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3Jorrit 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.
♦ 4Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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