Pancake batfish

Taxobox
name = Pancake batfish


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Lophiiformes
familia = Ogcocephalidae
genus = "Halieutichthys"
species = "H. aculeatus"
binomial = "Halieutichthys aculeatus"
binomial_authority = (Mitchill, 1818)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. [FishBase species | genus = Halieutichthys | species = aculeatus | month = February | year = 2006]

They live on the bottom, covered in sand. The fish are flat, resembling pancakes.

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