FB-70710 http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70710 Animalia Chordata Teleostei Anguilliformes Ophichthidae Ophichthus Ophichthus kusanagi Hibino, McCosker & Tashiro, 2019 Murray’s deepsea batfish 2024-09-20 2024-09-20 Ho, H.-C.0 Taxonomy and distribution of the deep-sea batfish genus <i>Halieutopsis</i> (Teleostei: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 10(1):34. (Ref. 127411) FB-DiagnosticDescr-70719 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-09-23 00:00:00 2024-09-23 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70719 This species is distinguished by the following characters: body uniformly black; principal tubercles on rostrum are trifid; subopercular tubercle elongated and divided into four spinelets distally; tubercles on dorsal and ventral surfaces and tail are all simple, rather apart from each other with naked skin in between; tubercles on disk margin somewhat depressed, bifurcate at the tip; tubercles on dorsal surface with 5-8 facets; dorsal lobe of esca with two pairs of cirri; head narrow, 26.9% SL; interorbital space also narrow, 8.2% SL; illicial cavity narrow, 7.0% SL; all fins are relatively long (dorsal-fin length 19.1% SL, pectoral-fin length 31.6% SL, anal-fin length 19.7% SL, caudal-fin length 31.0% SL) (Ref. 127411). Ho, H.-C. 2021 Taxonomy and distribution of the deep-sea batfish genus <i>Halieutopsis</i> (Teleostei: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 10(1):34. (Ref. 127411) FB-Distribution-70719 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-09-23 00:00:00 2024-09-23 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70719 West Indian Ocean: Yemen. Ho, H.-C. 2021 Taxonomy and distribution of the deep-sea batfish genus <i>Halieutopsis</i> (Teleostei: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 10(1):34. (Ref. 127411) FB-Uses-70719 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-09-23 00:00:00 2024-09-23 00:00:00 Importance http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70719 fisheries: of no interest FB-Size-70719 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-09-23 00:00:00 2024-09-23 00:00:00 Max. size http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70719 4.9 cm SL (male/unsexed; (Ref. 127411)) Ho, H.-C. 2021 Taxonomy and distribution of the deep-sea batfish genus <i>Halieutopsis</i> (Teleostei: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 10(1):34. (Ref. 127411) FB-Threats-2 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Belen Acosta 1990-10-18 00:00:00 2024-03-07 00:00:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=2 Least Concern (LC) , IUCN Grouper and Wrasse Specialist Group IUCN 2006 2006 IUCN red list of threatened species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded July 2006. FB-Habitat-70719 http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text text/html Estelita Emily Capuli 2024-09-23 00:00:00 2024-09-23 00:00:00 Environment http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=70719 bathydemersal; marine; depth range ? - 1270 m (Ref. 127411) Ho, H.-C. 2021 Taxonomy and distribution of the deep-sea batfish genus <i>Halieutopsis</i> (Teleostei: Ogcocephalidae), with descriptions of five new species. J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 10(1):34. (Ref. 127411)