The Roundface Batfish can be recognised by the dark blotch below the pectoral fin, and a second elongated dark mark above the origin of the anal fin. Viewed from the side, the body is roughly circular with a low hump on the nape. It is silver, grey or brownish with a dark band through the eye and another level with the pectoral fin. ... source: Australian Museum Factsheets
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| Distribution: | Indo-West Pacific, Red Sea to Papua New Guinea and Ryukyu Islands to Australia. |
| IUCN_Threat_status: | Not assessed |
| Depth: | (0–16 m) |
| Common_Name: | Tall-fin batfish;Roundface Batfish; round-faced batfish |
| Threats: | No major threats to this species are known |
| Max_size: | 700 mm |
| Invasive: | Not known to be invasive |
| Commercial_Uses: | None, other than trivial captures for aquarium trade |
| Diet: | Invertebrates, Plankton, Fishes |
| Range: | 1721.895 |
| Abundance: | 1.333 |
| Frequency: | 0.382 |
| Accepted name | Source |
|---|---|
| Platax teira |
| Synonyms | Source |
|---|---|
| Chaetodon teira Forsskål, 1775 | |
| Published in: Forsskål, P. 1775. Descriptiones animalium avium, amphibiorum, piscium, insectorum, vermium; quae in itinere orientali observavit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia medica kahirina atque tabula maris rubri geographica Hauniae [=Copenhagen] : Mölleri pp. 19 xxxiv [2] 164 pp. | |
| Common name | Source |
|---|---|
| Roundface Batfish | |
| Longfin Batfish | |
| Round Faced Batfish | |
| Teira Batfish | |
| Tiera Batfish | |
| Batfish | |
| Longfin Spadefish | |
| Spotbelly Batfish | |
| Tail-fin Batfish | |
| Tall-fin Batfish |
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