Roundface Batfish (species: Platax teira) in Upolu Reef (Gaia Guide)
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Platax teira
Roundface Batfish


©Anne: Adult Roundface Batfishes (Platax teira)

©Richard Ling: Roundface Batfish (Platax teira)

©Jan Messersmith: Roundface Batfish (Platax teira) in cleaning station colouration

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Actinopterygii
Order Perciformes
Family Ephippidae
Genus Platax
Species Platax teira

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Distinguishing features

A large plate-shaped fish, silver grey to brownish with a dark vertical bar through the eye, another though the pectoral fin, and a distinctive dark blotch below the pectoral fin.

Size

  • Up to 60 cm (Measured as the total length of the fish: the length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body.)

Depth range

  • Depth range data is not yet available.

Synonyms

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Interesting facts

  • They can vary the colour of their skin dramatically.

Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

Distribution and habitat preferences

It can be found in marine environments.

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References

  • Randall, J.E., G.R. Allen and R.C. Steene (1990). Fishes of the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.