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Pancake Batfish
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Pancake Batfish

Halieutichthys aculeatus

The pancake batfish (Halieutichthys aculeatus) belongs to the family Ogcocephalidae of batfishes. Their distributrition includes western Atlantic, North Carolina, northern Gulf of Mexico to northern South America. They inhabit a subtropical, sandy, reef-associated, and 45–820 m deep environment.

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