Platycephalus
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| Platycephalus | |
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| Platycephalus fuscus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Platycephalidae |
| Genus: | Platycephalus Bloch, 1795 |
| Type species | |
| Callionymus indicus | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Platycephalus is a genus of mostly marine, demersal ray-finned fish belonging to the family Platycephalidae. They are found in the eastern Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean.
Etymology
Platycephalus was first proposed as a genus in 1795 by the German physician and naturalist Marcus Elieser Bloch with Callionymus indicus, which had been described in 1748 by Carl Linnaeus from "Asia", as its type species.[2][3] This genus is classified within the family Playtcephalidae, the flatheads which the 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies within the suborder Platycephaloidei in the order Scorpaeniformes.[4]
The genus name Platycephalus means "flat head" an allusion to the wide flattened head of these fishes which leads to the English common name flathead.[5]
Species
There are currently 19 recognised species in this genus:[6][3]
- Platycephalus angustus Steindachner, 1866 (Steindachner's flathead) [7]
- Platycephalus aurimaculatus L. W. Knapp, 1987 (Toothy flathead)
- Platycephalus australis Imamura, 2015 (Australian bartail flathead) [8]
- Platycephalus bassensis Cuvier, 1829 (Sand flathead)
- Platycephalus caeruleopunctatus McCulloch, 1922 (Blue-spotted flathead)
- Platycephalus chauliodous L. W. Knapp, 1991 (Big-tooth flathead)
- Platycephalus conatus Waite & McCulloch, 1915 (Deep-water flathead)
- Platycephalus cultellatus J. Richardson, 1846
- Platycephalus endrachtensis Quoy & Gaimard, 1825 (Yellow-tail flathead)
- Platycephalus fuscus Cuvier, 1829 (Dusky flathead)
- Platycephalus grandispinis Cuvier, 1829 (Long-spined flathead) [9]
- Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Bar-tail flathead)
- Platycephalus laevigatus Cuvier, 1829 (Black flathead)
- Platycephalus marmoratus Stead, 1908 (Marbled flathead)
- Platycephalus micracanthus Sauvage, 1873
- Platycephalus orbitalis Imamura & L. W. Knapp, 2009 (Western Australian flathead)
- Platycephalus richardsoni Castelnau, 1872 (Tiger flathead)
- Platycephalus speculator Klunzinger, 1872 (Southern bluespotted flathead)
- Platycephalus westraliae (Whitley, 1938)
