🦋 Family

Ephippidae

7 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Perciformes › Ephippidae

Chaetodipterus faber is a western Atlantic fish with a deep compressed disk-shaped body and distinct black vertical bands.

Chaetodipterus zonatus, the Pacific spadefish, is an eastern Pacific Ephippidae fish that feeds on benthic invertebrates.

Platax orbicularis, the orbicular batfish, is a round-bodied fish native to the Indo-Pacific, introduced off southern Florida.

Platax teira is a wide-ranging Indo-Pacific fish species with variable coloration and specific morphological traits across life stages.

Platax boersii is a species of batfish with distinct adult and juvenile traits found around reefs in parts of Southeast Asia and Oceania.

Platax batavianus is a tropical Indo-Pacific reef fish with distinct color differences between juvenile and adult forms.

Platax pinnatus is a small reef fish species found in the confirmed western Pacific range with distinct adult and juvenile coloration and body forms.

Related Families

Labridae 155 species Pomacentridae 142 species Gobiidae 120 species Serranidae 103 species Blenniidae 86 species Chaetodontidae 82 species Percidae 67 species Carangidae 53 species

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