Ogcocephalidae

Truncate-snout Deepsea Batfish

Halieutopsis tumifrons

Ogcocephalid Fish Reaching Six Point Nine Centimeters

• Southern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• Deep-bodied
• Small

Halieutopsis tumifrons, the truncate-snout deepsea batfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Ogcocephalidae, the deep-sea batfishes. This species is the type species of the genus Halieutopsis. It is a little known species only known from the two type specimens collected off the Galápagos Islands in 1890.