Platycephalus

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.

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KINGDOM

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassTeleostei
OrderPerciformes
FamilyPlatycephalidae

Habitatmarine, brackish

Observations recorded3,012,139,120

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Museum specimens

Specimen records: 366
With media: 20
Family: Platycephalidae
Collections: UWFC, NHMUK, NMV, LSUMZ, USNM, CAS
Recorded in: United Kingdom, Australia, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, South Africa, Japan, Pakistan

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Instance of: taxon
Parent taxon: Platycephalidae
Image: MaKC.jpg

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Commons category: Platycephalus
taxon name: Platycephalus
taxon rank: genus
topic's main category: Category:Platycephalus
start time: 56000000-0
taxon author citation: Bloch, 1795

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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.

==Taxonomy== 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. 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.

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