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Platycephalidae
Spotted flathead
Cociella punctata
Platycephalid Fish from Indo West Pacific
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Elongated
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Elongated
MediumSpotted flathead is a marine fish of Indo-West Pacific. The species occupies marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 35 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Platycephalidae
- Genus
- Cociella
- Maximum length
- 35 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: widespread, from the New Hebrides to Papua New Guinea, north to Taiwan, through Indonesia to Thailand, Pakistan, the Red Sea, and South Africa. Replaced by Cociella crocodilus from southern China to Japan and by Cociella hutchinsi in northern Australia (Ref. 37816 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
