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Sorsogona
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Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderScorpaeniformes
- FamilyPlatycephalidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 21
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Platycephalidae
- Collections
- LSUMZ, UMMZ, CAS, MNHN, USNM, BPBM
- Recorded in
- Kuwait, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Sultanat D'Oman, Australia, Bahrain, Mer Rouge, India
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Platycephalidae
- Image
- Sorsogona tuberculata.jpg
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- Sorsogona
- taxon name
- Sorsogona
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon author citation
- Herre, 1934
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Sorsogona is a genus of flatheads native to the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean.
==Species== There are currently six recognized species in this genus: Sorsogona humerosa L. W. Knapp & Heemstra, 2011 (White-margined flathead) Sorsogona melanoptera L. W. Knapp & Wongratana, 1987 (Obscure flathead) Sorsogona nigripinna (Regan, 1905) (Blackfin flathead) Sorsogona portuguesa (J. L. B. Smith, 1953) (South African thorny flathead) Sorsogona prionota (Sauvage, 1873) (Halfspined flathead) Sorsogona tuberculata (G. Cuvier, 1829) (Tuberculated flathead)
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