Ogcocephalus parvus
Ogcocephalus parvus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Lophiiformes |
Family: | Ogcocephalidae |
Genus: | Ogcocephalus |
Species: | O. parvus
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Binomial name | |
Ogcocephalus parvus Longley & Hildebrand, 1940
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Ogcocephalus parvus, the roughback batfish, is a species of batfish found along the coast of the western Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina in the United States to Brazil. This species grows to a length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in) TL.
References[]
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Ogcocephalus parvus" in FishBase. April 2012 version.
- M. G. Bradbury, The genera of batfishes (family Ogcocephalidae), Copeia, Vol. 1967, No. 2 (June 5, 1967), pp. 399–422.
Categories:
- Ogcocephalidae
- Fish of the Atlantic Ocean
- Taxa named by William Harding Longley
- Taxa named by Samuel Frederick Hildebrand
- Fish described in 1940
- Lophiiformes stubs