Thorny flathead
Rogadius pristiger (Cuvier, 1829)
Also calledPeixe-crocodilo-rugoso (por) · Platycéphale Epineux (fra) · Platycéphale épineux (fra) · zploštělec přehlížený (ces) · ปลาช้างเหยียบด่าง (tha) · 牛尾 (zho) · 狗祈仔 (zho) · 竹甲 (zho) · 鋸銼倒棘牛尾魚 (zho)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
distribution
Distribution and habitat. New Ireland: 3. — General distribution: Red Sea and Madagascar east to Philippines and New Guinea, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. Benthic on silt or sand bottoms, 5 – 80 m depth. Marine.
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
materials_examined
Status at New Ireland. New record of this taxon from New Ireland; previously misidentified from Carteret Harbour, Lambom, New Ireland as Platycephalus serratus (non Cuvier in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1829) by Peters (1877: 839).
Checklist of the marine and estuarine fishes of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, western Pacific Ocean, with 810 new records
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2335676.