Platax teira
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Platax teira, also known as the teira batfish, longfin batfish, longfin spadefish, or round faced batfish is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ephippidae, the spadefishes and
Platax, Mauritius
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Platax
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Platax is a genus of Indo-Pacific, reef-associated fish belonging to the family Ephippidae. There are currently five known extant species generally accepted to belong to the genus. They are one of the
Platax teira
…Peter Forsskål with its type locality given as Al Luḩayyah on the Red Sea coast of Yemen. This species was designated as the type species of the genus Platax by Pieter Bleeker in 1876, Platax belongs to the family Ephippidae in the order Moroniformes. The specific name teira is a latinisation of the Arabic…
†Platax altissimus reconstruction
Batavia spadefish
Platax batavianus Juvenile Humpback Bat Fish